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debm55

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11. We have buildings in my town. Why do we call them buildings when they are done being built. I ask
Mon Jul 3, 2023, 06:31 PM
Jul 2023

for directions for the doctor's office. I am told to go the the third building in the hospital complex. Should't the word structure be used as no building of anything is going on. It's done, it's finished.

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