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Old 27-Nov-2004, 19:31
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Default Re: 18 sentences to correct

Thank you so much! I've got some questions about the variants you wrote:

12. I really wanted to use the infinitive after the adjective "indispensable" but I came across such a sentence:

International cooperation is indispensable to resolving the problem of the drug trade.

This sentence is absolutely correct because it's taken from an English dictionary.

Can you explain to me why in my sentense I should use the infinitive or the gerund but in the sentence I read in the dictionary I should use to+ing?

5. What's wrong in this sentence? I have read your variant three times and failed to find a single word my sentence didn't have or lacked.


6. I meant 'a short time ago' by 'recently'. As far as I remember if you mean 'a short time ago' by recently you should use the Past Simple, shouldn't you?

18. I don't mean that Russia's been backward in its development from many other countries for the LAST centuries. I mean that it was backward in its.....

I hope you clerify that.
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