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- anticipate vs. look forward in business writing
A hotel could write "We anticipate a railroad workers' strike on the day of your arrival, so please plan to take the bus," or "We anticipate several power failures due to weather during your visit " These are not pleasant thoughts, either As others have posted, the verb "to anticipate" does not carry a sense of pleasure like "to look forward to "
- predict expect anticipate - WordReference Forums
anticipate implies you are looking forward with enjoyment to something that is going to happen Examples: I predict it will rain tomorrow I expect everyone will be on their best behavior today I'm expecting the package tomorrow I (eagerly) anticipate our fishing trip tomorrow
- anticipate ~ing - WordReference Forums
anticipate seeing 750 hits anticipate to see 508 hits Some of the latter are examples of apposition ("to anticipate, to see"), some are clearly written by non-native speakers Others I can't explain, except in terms of Gwan's explanation of a confusion with "expect"; the meaning of "anticipate" is often confused with that of "expect", too
- anticipate a meeting? | WordReference Forums
As Dreamlike says (post #3) to anticipate is to look forward to I think Sound Shift's solution is British In American English, we'd be more likely to say, "I'm moving the meeting up to the 10th of February", or "I'm changing the date of the meeting; it will be one month earlier, on the 10th of February "
- anticipate anticipar - WordReference Forums
Anticipate: Prever anticipar Entiendo que anticipar sí puede ser es lo mismo que anticipate pero no en todos los casos: to look forward to; expect to anticipate a pleasant vacation to make happen earlier; precipitate Adelantar Anticipar to prevent by action in advance; forestall to anticipate an opponent's blows : Prever anticiparse
- Had you anticipated this? | WordReference Forums
Fictional, 'Did you anticipate this?' has only one main verb - anticipate 'Did' is an auxiliary verb that helps us form the correct past-tense form of the main verb I am happy to see that you use English quite well even without knowing the underlying grammar rules This is admirable indeed Here is a website that lists the English verb tenses
- anticipate, expect, imagine, cost | WordReference Forums
anticipate expect imagine cost: Here is my estimation by checking the oxford dictionary: It cost 5$ (cost: state = value) Has the project been costed? (cost: action = estimate the price of the expense) I can't interpret the first three words' state and action totally the forth that I'm unsure about also
- ti anticipo che (anticipare) | WordReference Forums
Salve a tutti! I dubbi dei natives mi hanno persuaso che "anticipate" e "expect" (che effettivamente hanno come significato principale quello di "prevedere, essere convinti che qualcosa succederà o che qualcuno farà qualcosa) non rendono perfettamente l'originale, in cui, come già è stato spiegato, si vuole soprattutto esprimere l'idea di "riferire qualcosa a qualcuno prima che questi lo
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