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“科学网大学”英文服务中心: can not? cannot? can't?

已有 3993 次阅读 2011-4-13 16:48 |个人分类:Scientific Writing|系统分类:论文交流| 科学网大学, 英文服务中心


Google “cannot,” you get “About 1,050,000,000 results (0.15 seconds).” 

Google “can not,” you get “About 518,000,000 results (0.15 seconds).”

Now you see which one I would use.


If you put these two in a Word file, Bill Gates would tell you the latter is wrong.

No, you don’t need to take Bill seriously, since he never graduated from college. 

No, you don’t have to accept my tracked change, because I am only showing you what I would do.


However, what you can't do is to use "can't" in a research paper. Can someone explain why?



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