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ongoing
Adjective
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Something is ongoing if it's continuing to happen without stopping in one long period of time.
The growth of bones is still ongoing at age 12.
The development of the new way of doing this is ongoing.
monitoring
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noun
the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it)
the monitoring of enemy communications plays an important role in war times
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
verification
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noun
(= confirmation)
additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory
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noun
(law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement