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hedda_foil

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5. The Russian tell is right in their goal: "shed light on the global issues ."

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:14 PM

Sep 2020

There's a "the" in there that doesn't belong. Should be "shed light on global issues." Russians have the most trouble with using "the" before nouns. Either it's missing or an misused.

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