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apart from

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 12:30 am
by navit
1) "I had absolutely no symptoms and would not have learned I had COVID apart from having taken the test," she said.

Source:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-still- ... 40236.html

Is '1' grammatical?
Is it standard?
Is it idiomatic?

Can one replace 'apart from' with 'if it were not for'?

2) "I had absolutely no symptoms and would not have learned I had COVID if it were not for having taken the test," she said.


Gratefully,
Navi

Re: apart from

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:57 am
by Alan
Absolutely not!

--> if I had not taken...