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What is the difference between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense?

The perfect tense (in french le passé composé) is used to describe completed actions, whereas the imperfect tense (l'imparfait) refers to an event that used to happen, or an action that cannot be described a...
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Answered by Isobel D. • French tutor
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Graphite and diamond are both made from carbon atoms. Why can graphite conduct electricity while diamond cannot?

The carbon atoms in diamond make four bonds The carbon atoms in graphite make three bonds Graphite has delocalised electrons which can move through the graphite to carry a charge Diamond does not have deloca...
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The MMR vaccine is given to children in order to prevent the conditions measles, mumps and rubella. Describe how a vaccine works?

Vaccines contain dead or inactive forms of a pathogen. - These dead or inactive forms stimulate the white blood cells to produce antibodies against the pathogen. - If a person is infected by the pathogen in ...
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Factorise y^2 + 7y + 6

So here we have a quadratic equation because it has the structure a^2 + bx + c. In order to factorise a quadratic we first need to look for two numbers that we can multiply together to get 6 and add together...
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Answered by Victoria H. • Maths tutor
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Discuss Yeats’ presentation of his disappointment in Ireland in ‘The Fisherman’

Yeats reaches a point of resignation in the second stanza by confirming his envisioned fisherman to be “A man who does not exist, / A man who is but a dream”. The anaphora and the indication of the fisherman...
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Answered by Caroline N. • English tutor
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