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1Likes- 13-Feb-2012, 10:32 #1
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all-time or always Hello everyone,
Our all-time problem was food.
Our problem was always food. The first one I read in the news paper, Is it corect,can we use "all-time" like this?
Thank you.
- 13-Feb-2012, 10:45 #2
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Teacher Re: all-time or always All-time usually has a meaning similar to record: all-time - Dictionary definition and pronunciation - Yahoo! Education
'Our all-time problem was food.' sounds unnatural to me, as if it were produced by a non-native speaker.Context is always important; labelling is rarely important.
- 14-Feb-2012, 10:39 #3
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Teacher Re: all-time or always Yes - a non-native-speaker who wrongly assumed that 'all-time' was just an efficient way of referring to something that happened 'all the time'.
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