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Old 17-Jul-2003, 15:30
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Default Re: Which sentence is correct?

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Originally Posted by RonBee
Best, I think, is number two, but you need to change the wording a little, thus: "I've been living in England for only 7 months, and I need to improve my English as soon as possible." (You might also want to make it "seven months" instead of "7 months".)

What do you think?

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Yeah, I liked the second sentence the most, regarding to prepositions, tense and ‘to-infinitive’. Thank you very much for the explanation about ‘only’, but I didn’t understand about ‘7’ and ‘seven’. Did you mean native speakers prefer words to figures in writing?
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