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Hi, there

I'd like to know if you could help me with some questions. Please!

1) Do you say "US 2016 presidential election" or "2016 US presidential election"? ... "Yesterday the first US 2016 presidential election debate happened" or "Yesterday the first 2016 US presidential election debate happened"? Neither?

2) In yesterday's debate, after Hillary responded to Trump, Lester Hold(the debate's moderator) said: "Let me follow up with Trump, if you can"... What do "follow up with" and "if you can" mean here?

3) If in a sentence, which the verb "criticize" doesn't fit the context, like "Do you remember the criticism of the extremely consumerist contemporary society that this author makes in his book?, what could I say instead of "criticism that this author makes"? I know it sounds odd to say "makes a criticism", but what could I say instead? Without dropping the noun "criticism"?

Thank you!

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Hi, there

I'd like to know if you could help me with some questions. Please!

1) Do you say "US 2016 presidential election" or "2016 US presidential election"? ... "Yesterday the first US 2016 presidential election debate happened" or "Yesterday the first 2016 US presidential election debate happened"? Neither?

2) In yesterday's debate, after Hillary responded to Trump,  Lester Hold(the debate's moderator) said: "Let me follow up with Trump, if you can"... What do "follow up with" and "if you can" mean here?

3)  If in a sentence, which the verb "criticize" doesn't fit the context, like "Do you remember the criticism of the extremely consumerist contemporary society that this author makes in his book?,  what could I say instead of "criticism that this author makes"? I know it sounds odd to say "makes a criticism", but what could I say instead? Without dropping the noun "criticism"?

Thank you!

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1.  "Yesterday the first 2016 US presidential election debate happened" sounds the best to me.

2.  In this context "Let me follow up with Trump" means that the moderator either will let Trump respond to something Clinton had mentioned or wants to clarify what Trump something. The "if you can" sounds like the moderator being polite and subtly asking Trump if he's prepared to respond or clarify.

3. The sentence that you have regarding criticism sounds just fine to me also.

I hope this helps.

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