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  December 2020     4 years ago

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WSJ takes their style too far concerning compound nouns. Some combinations of adjectives and nouns become one idea after enough common usage, like "cellular phone." I have one mental model for the concept those two words are referring to, not two. So I can't be the only one who finds "cellular-phone companies" to be clunky and almost confusing. 

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Identify the sentence with correct use of the past perfect continuous tense:
A I have been finished my assignment.
B They had been working on the project for several hours before they took a break.
C We had eaten when she called.
D She was visiting her grandparents all weekend.