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Old 08-Jul-2007, 23:59
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There's no water coming out of the faucet.

Is there a better expression than this?
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Apart from using "tap" {BrE}, no, it looks fine as it is.
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Apart from using "tap" {BrE}, no, it looks fine as it is.
How do we use tap?
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There's no water coming out of the tap(faucet).
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There's no water coming out of the tap(faucet).
I thought there could be something else!
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