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Q: Alternative for Vocabulary.com

Almendrof66I recently find the website vocabulary.com. It helped me a lot to memorize a great number of words, and also mastering its spelling, but unfortunately it doesn't allowed to submit a list of expressions. Do anyone know a website that provide this service, I mean submitting a list of expression and...

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AIQ
AIQ
8:18 PM
> "As of January 2020, more than 350 Indigenous women and men are working on the project"
Why did they write "are"? Shouldn't it be "have been"?
 
 
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Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
10:59 PM
@AIQ "have been" would mean something different
"as of" can mean different ways of marking time. Here it refers to a point in time.
It can also mean until a point or since a point.
 
AIQ
AIQ
@EddieKal I see ... So it means that in Jan there were more than 350 Indigenous workers working in the project?
 
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
11:25 PM
@AIQ Right.
 
AIQ
AIQ
> Coastal GasLink can play a role in helping to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Isn't this the same as saying "Coastal GasLink can help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions"
 

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