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Victor：Nancy我们今天来谈论一下体育运动的话题。 Nancy：What sports do you play?We say the wordplaywith sports，Victor，when the sport is a noun and not a verb. Victor：大家一定要注意在play后面一定要加的是名词，而不是动词。 Nancy：So you can play bask

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is verbification. Last week police used a Taser on University of Florida student Andrew Meyer as they struggled to remove him from an auditorium where Senator John Kerry was speaking. The Web has been filled with deba

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