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echo: english_tutor
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from: Anton Shepelev
date: 2021-03-29 01:18:00
subject: `Several` misapplied?

Hello, all

The chief of a computer-science laboratory where my friend works
condemned his usage of the word `several' in the the following
sentence:

  We present several new piecewise-polynomial kernels for image
  interpolation.

on the ground that it is a typical mistake made by those who
learned English in a Russian school. Perhaps I was not sufficiently
diligent in the English classes of my Russian school, but I see no
fault in that sentence, except maybe for a missing introductory
phrase, such as "In this article, we present..." Do you?

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