I read it too often in my students’ writing tasks, this word SOMETIMES. Now just as I tell them, I’ll tell you. There are many other words or phrases which can be used instead to avoid repeating it. Here are just 3 of them:
- every so often
- once in a while
- every now and then
Over to you …
Do you know of any others? Write in and share.
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at intervals, at times, consistently, constantly, ever and again, frequently, from time to time, here and there, intermittently, now and again, occasionally, off and on, on occasion, periodically, recurrently
Every time I have to write an essay or term paper I use thesaurus.com so I don’t repeat myself but rather use a greater variety of words. You can find synonyms, definitions, antonyms and more on this website. (Unfortunately I don’t get paid for this advert😁)
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After such an exhaustive list, is there anything left for me to say? In fact, there is. “Constantly” and a few others refer to things which happen more often than “sometimes”.
I also use thesaurus.com and its companion site dictionary.com in the classroom, in the hope that it encourages students to use an English-English dictionary when stumbling across new words.
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