http://www.vietesl.com Welcome To Hoc Tieng Anh, Hoc Anh Van Tren Mang, Learn English, English as a Second Language, ESL, Learn English Grammar, Cach Hoc Tieng Anh, Hoc Ngoai Ngu Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:39:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.vietesl.com/english-grammar/certain/ http://www.vietesl.com/english-grammar/certain/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:40:49 +0000 vietesl http://www.vietesl.com/?p=330 If you think too much about it, you might conclude that certain is an absolute term like unanimous or paramount and cannot be modified. Something is either certain or it is not, you might say. There can be no in-between. But before you say much more, you may find yourself using certain in combination with adverbs such as fairly, absolutely, and completely, which would seem to imply that levels of certainty exist. In an earlier survey, a majority of the Usage Panel accepted the construction Nothing could be more certain, so you can be confident that modifying certain is a pretty safe bet.

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