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why is have you turned skinny wrong? #1 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:08 am   why is have you turned skinny wrong?
 

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ESL/EFL Test #42 "Basic Business English", question 4

Have you .........?

(a) turned skinny
(b) lost weight
(c) no more fat
(d) weighted less

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ESL/EFL Test #42 "Basic Business English", answer 4

Have you lost weight?

Correct answer: (b) lost weight
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why is have you turned skinny wrong? #2 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:00 am   why is have you turned skinny wrong?
 

Incidentally, why is have you turned skinny wrong?
Isn't it the same as have you become skinny ?
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why is have you turned skinny wrong? #3 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:04 am   why is have you turned skinny wrong?
 

You cannot 'turn' skinny because 'turn' is too fast a process-- in usual use, of course (just to prebut the person who finds the first exception). Anyway, the very standard phrase is 'Have/Haven't you lost weight?'.
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why is have you turned skinny wrong? #4 (permalink) Sun Apr 11, 2010 0:28 am   why is have you turned skinny wrong?
 

Mister Micawber wrote:
You cannot 'turn' skinny because 'turn' is too fast a process-- in usual use, of course (just to prebut the person who finds the first exception). Anyway, the very standard phrase is 'Have/Haven't you lost weight?'.
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What is prebut?
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why is have you turned skinny wrong? #5 (permalink) Thu Feb 10, 2011 16:08 pm   why is have you turned skinny wrong?
 

Hello Gheon,

In Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary I didn't find the verb: to prebut
But I found a noun prebuttal /C;U/ = (inf)(pol)a statement saying or proving that a criticism is false or unfair before the criticism has actually has been made.

Me also I am curious what can mean.

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