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Undergo vs Suffer an accident
I was doing a CAE Practice Test on Use of English (It is a multiple choice exercise) when I came across the following example:
Her life was cut tragically short. She ______ a horrific accident at
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"in someone's eyes" meaning "in someone's opinion" (AE) and punctuation with phrases of opinion
Is the phrase "in my/his/etc. eyes" as meaning "in my/his/etc. opinion" common in American English? Is it an idiomatic alternative to "in my view" "to my mind" etc.?
This is, in his eyes, the most ...
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"Write out a prescription" vs. "make out a prescription"
Are "write out a prescription" and "make out a prescription" used more or less interchangeably?
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