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Bookmark or Share- "Read" vs "read as" - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeAhh. I'm guessing you're typing Chinese characters, but they only appear to me as "6 : 2" (without the spaces) because my English computer can't read them. In your question, I'd replace the actual symbol with "... I explained how to read a Chinese symbol aloud..." so others can read it too –
- present perfect - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeRecently is a general-time adverb. Together with already, yet, just, and many others, it states a non-definite and relative (to the listener or to the speaker) period of time, which could perfectly be sometime in the past (I've got no idea when) as well as sometime in the present (I still have to think about this sometime in the present, maybe a theme for a philosophy paper).
- Which is grammatical - "There is a sign {reading / reads / which reads ...There's a sign reading "No Entry". There's a sign reads "No Entry". There's a sign which reads "No Entry". There's a sign that reads "No E
- tense - "I had read the book last year" wrong? - English Language ...If you read it last year and want to talk about something that happened this year, you can use either past perfect or simple past, because the adverbial phrases already clarify the chronology of events, thus either of these would work: I had read the book last year that was assigned in the course I took this year.
- How do you read these mathematical expressions aloud?Commonly lecturers will read out loud as they write on the board, whether for the benefit of those with obstructed sightlines or just to fill the time. I've had professors who used the word "quantity" to introduce large sections within brackets, and "onto" for "times" but with the implication that it's outside a prior term.
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