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Hi,
Are the following sentences natural to a native ear?
1. Have you listened to any good song recently?
2. I was wondering if I could get some tips on customizing the site for effective use.
3. I would also mention here that this project has changed quite a bit since it was conceptualized.
Thanks,
MG.
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1 any good songs, or any good music
also, I would say have you heard, rather than listened.
Have you heard any good songs?
Or have you been listening to any good music?
2 for effective use? sounds a bit empty jargonish. Customising is changing something from a template, do you need to say that?
also effective use? efficient? If website, making it user-friendly? I am not entirely sure what you are trying to say here, but what you have, although grammatically correct, sounds a bit contrived to me.
3 sounds fine to me.
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I would mention, besides what has already been said, that "conceptualised" seems to be a bit of a "trend-word", one of those used to 'sound better' in some way. The normal word is 'conceived' - in fact, in the definition of 'conceptualised' in the TFD, the example sentences use 'conceive'. Quote:Verb 1. conceptualise - have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
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Thanks folks.
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