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Hi, there
Could you help me with a few questions? Please
1) Let us say a mother is telling off her son(Ben) for him getting in the way of her making lunch(can I say for him getting in the way of her making lunch???) and make her break four dishes, and the boy's brother says to provoke him: "Trust Ben to pull these dumb stunts" or "Leave it to Ben to pull these dumb stunts" or just "Trust Ben!" or "Leave it to Ben!"? Are they all odd and awkward things to say?
2)
What does "to the extent that" mean here?
"The tradition of these decentralized city-states that were the heart of the Renaissance. Italy is not unified — to the extent it has ever been unified — until the 1860s and 1970s"
Thank you very much!
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You can say all of those things to Ben. (But that not very kind.) And "to the extant that" means that Italy even today is still not very unified. It means that the something is not entirely true or that there is doubt. Another way would be to say "to a point". For example, "There are few wars going on today. Things are looking peaceful to the extent that there will ever be true peace."
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