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Help(please) Hi, there Could you help me with a few questions? 1) Do you say "I've probably sat in this chair for one hour" or "I've probable been sitting in this chair for one hour" or "I've been probable sitting in this chair for one hour"? . And: "Jesus is sitting/sitting down/seated at/on God's right hand"? And why "right hand" and not just "right"? 2) Should you say "I played the 1.3 version of tis game on moderate first time. Then I played it on crushing, but I didn't get any trophies. It said I had completed chapter 6 on moderate. I couldn't stomach another entire crushing playthrough FOR IT TO DO the same thing so I rolled back to the version 1.0" OR "(...) It said I had completed chapter 6 on moderate. I couldn't stomach another entire crushing playthrough ONLY TO HAVE IT DO the same thing so I rolled back to the version 1.0"? for it to do or to have it do? And what does "rolled back to" mean here? Please, I need your help!

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1) "I've probably sat in this chair for one hour" is correct. However, I think it would sound more natural to say "an hour", instead of "one hour." For the phrase regarding Jesus, it depends on whether you are aiming to say this in modern conversational English, or in Biblical English. I believe the bible (depending on the exact translation) says something like "Jesus is seated at the right hand of God." That would be an unnatural way to say this in modern conversational English. If you were talking about your friends Bob and Mary, you would likely say that "Bob is sitting to the right of Mary" or "Bob is sitting on Mary's right hand side" Why use "right-hand" instead of "right?" I can't give a formal linguistic explanation. I can only tell you that when referring to a person's left or right side, people commonly say right-hand or left-hand. However, there would be nothing wrong with saying "Bob is sitting on Mary's right side." It would be correct and understood, and it would also sound natural. I think it would be a less common construction, though. 2) First, I'll say that I'm not a gamer. So there are probably phrases that gamers use that I don't know. Having said that, I think that "I played version 1.3 of this game at the moderate level for the first time" would be the correct construction. Hopefully, a gamer will join the thread to help out with this one.
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Well, to answer your first question... I've probably been sitting in this chair for one hour - correct Then, Correct - Jesus is seated at God's right hand. (Notice that I've used 'at' which indiates the direction on the right to the hand). Incorrect - Jesus is seated on God's right hand. (The word 'on' will mean that Jesus is sitting on the hand but not adjacent to the right side of God) Well, we can obviously use just 'right' instead of 'right hand' as both indicates the same direction. However, 'right hand' is a better form of expression when you want to give importance, power and authority to the person sitting at the right hand of someone whereas a person sitting on the 'right' may be equal in importance as to the person sitting on the left. Second, Why don't you use 'just to do the same thing' eg. I couldn't stomach another entire crushing playthrough just to do the same thing, so I rolled back to the version 1.0. Rolled back means to withdraw or to move onto something that you were doing before (maybe a previous version in your case)
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Hello Gabriel, I think for the first sentence it would be more natural to use the present perfect continuous as you are focusing on the duration of the action. 'I've probably been sitting on this chair for an/one hour' ('an' or 'one' both correct.) "Jesus is seated at God's right hand" is probably the Biblical and generally accepted version although many other variants are possible. But probably not 'on God's right hand'. Again, like Jeff, not a gamer, but I suspect that 'moderate' in this context indicates the level of difficulty, so here I suspect 'fairly difficult' and 'crushing' would be extremely difficult. If you 'roll a program back' you return it to a previous state. So you had level 1, you upgraded to level 1.3 and then you returned back to level 1. Hope this helps Bob

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