Comments on: At once https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-once-288/ Upgrade your English Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-once-288/#comment-15032 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:44:39 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=7045#comment-15032 In reply to Huy.

I think your placement of “the questions” is making this sentence a little confusing. “At once” means “right after.” If you mean that (1) first the students read the questions; and (2) then they answered them immediately after reading them, you can say: “The students read the questions and answered them at once.”

]]> By: Huy https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-once-288/#comment-15024 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:37:24 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=7045#comment-15024 The students read and answered the questions at once.

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