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- Efforts of or efforrts by? - WordReference Forums
Which is the correct preposition to use in the following sentence: 'Many POW camps had their own libraries thanks to the efforts of (or by?) charitable organisations'?
- Everybodys efforts -or- Everybodys effort - WordReference Forums
I appreciate everybody's effort are often said, and both are correct As to the difference between them, imagine this being said to an individual: I appreciate your efforts is much the same as I appreciate your effort, except that the first is more often said in circumstances where the efforts have been unsuccessful
- small little effort - WordReference Forums
HI everybody, I would like to know the difference between : a small effort a little effort > Thanks Maria Laura
- a lot of efforts (has have) been made | WordReference Forums
If you accept "effort" as countable, then "a lot of efforts have been made" is correct - just as "a lot of apples have been eaten" is correct What concerns me, and others (I believe) is thinking of "effort" as countable in this context If someone said, a lot of efforts (not effort) has been made to save poor children is this a right sentence?
- an effort or efforts - WordReference Forums
The answer seems to be: effort is singular, efforts is plural 1 Do you need to make one type of effort once or that effort in a continuing manner? -> Teachers who guide students in the classrooms make an effort to understand or (2a) Does the problem require several types of efforts, -> Researchers should make efforts to obtain long-term data to evaluate models, or (2b) More than one effort
- spare no effort waste no time - WordReference Forums
1) spare no effort in (spare no expense in) 2) waste no time in While 1) means using all the efforts 2) means actually wasting no time Do these phrases, in your book, follow different logic, as it were? Thanks
- to spare no efforts to do something | WordReference Forums
Are "spare no effort to so something" and "spare no effort s to so something" both correct? It seems "efforts" is more grammatical? Many thanks
- Put up a good effort - WordReference Forums
The combination of put up and effort sounds unusual to me I usually hear fight after put up in similar sentences This sentence is typical: He was too small to put up much of a fight
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