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As soon as/ as far as/ as long as/ as well as I don‘t quite understand the meaning of them. So, I made some sentences. Can someone help me to revise it? Thanks kindly for your help. - As long as the application of new project has been approved, please let me know. I need to reply to customer. -I don‘t want to miss the basketball game, so I will run to the shower as soon as I get home. - These datas are as far as I got from customs. - I’ve been extremely busy recently. The new products in our company launch’s next months, so I have to prepare the presentation as well as two quality reports for company A.
Sep 27, 2017 1:38 PM
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- As long as the application of new project has been approved, please let me know. I need to reply to customer. Please let me know, as soon as the application for the new project has been approved, -I don‘t want to miss the basketball game, so I will run to the shower as soon as I get home. I don‘t want to miss the basketball game, so I will shower when I get home. - These datas are as far as I got from customs. * Not sure I understand This data is all I have received from customs. or These dates are all I have received from customs. - I’ve been extremely busy recently. The new products in our company launch’s next months, so I have to prepare the presentation as well as two quality reports for company A. I’ve been extremely busy recently. Our company's new products launch next month, so I have to prepare a presentation as well as two quality reports for company A.
September 27, 2017
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Here's a quick explanation for what those phrases mean: -As soon as means "once" or "as fast as you can after a certain thing happens." -As far as can talk about distance or length, and sort of means "until." If you were talking about reading a book, you could say "I only got as far as chapter 2," meaning "I only read until chapter 2." But we also have this phrase "As far as that is concerned," which is a tricky idiom and can mean a few different things. -As long as means "if" or "provided that." For example, "X will happen only if/as long as/provided that y happens." -As well as means "also" or "and". So, "I have to drive my kids to school and/as well as clean the house today." 1) As soon as the application of new project has been approved, please let me know. I need to reply to customer. (Because the person getting back to you depends on time, you use as soon as.) 2) I don‘t want to miss the basketball game, so I will run to the shower as soon as I get home. (This sounds correct!) 3) This data is all I got from customs. (Without context, you should use all. As far as doesn't work here, because it doesn't refer to length or distance. Also, data is usually singular - so, you would say "this data.") 4) I’ve been extremely busy recently. The new products in our company launch next month, so I have to prepare the presentation as well as two quality reports for company A. (Correct! The only changes would be that "launch's" should be "launch," and "next months" should be "next month" or "in the next few months.")
September 27, 2017
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