Thursday, October 4, 2012

ascertain

(v.): to discover with certainty

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  1. The detectives were ascertaining the death of the victim.

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  2. The historians ascertained the ruins of the Minoan civilization, and they were vary certain about the time and where everything took place.

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  3. I ascertained the girl's phone number with her friends.

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  4. He checked the receipt to acertain if he had paid the right amount of money.

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  6. Every boy in the school is trying to ascertain the pretty girl's name who just transferred to the school.

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  7. I ascertained my luggage to ensure that I didn't miss anything.

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    1. You can ascertain information, but not things. You can write instead, "I checked my luggage to ascertain that I didn't forget anything."

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  8. I ascertained my laptop form the crowd of laptops on the table.

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    1. You can ascertain information, not things: "I ascertained that I had correctly retrieved my laptop from the crowd of laptops on the table."

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  9. Sentence: The detective ascertained that John was killed by a sharp knife.

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  10. They ascertained that they pillow was bit was my dog.

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  11. The agents ascertained that he died by a blow to his head before the bullet hit him.

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  12. The polices ascertain the person who killed the victim.

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  13. After two months of investigating, the police ascertained who was the murderer.

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  14. The doctor ascertained that the driver was not badly hurt.

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  15. The detective tried to ascertain the truth by interrogating the suspects.

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  16. He ascertained the location of his ex-wife before kidnapping his children back from her.

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  17. The police ascertained that the gun was the murder weapon because there was a bullet in the victim's brain.

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  18. The CIA HQ ascertained the information they received before passing it onto the agents.

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  19. The teacher ascertained that Allen had stole his pen by finding his pen in his pencil case.

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  20. The detectives acertained the murdered by the abundant evidences at the crime scene.

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