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Onizo Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

During folding clothes...
1. Let's take the outside out.
2. Outside out, please.
3. The outside out, please.

Are all these correct to ask someone else?
  

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onizo Are all these correct to ask someone else? I have no idea what you mean. Are the clothes currently inside out?

  • onizo Are all these correct to ask someone else?
  • I have no idea what you mean.
  • Are the clothes currently inside out?
  • No one folds them in that condition.
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onizoAre all these correct to ask someone else?
I have no idea what you mean. Are the clothes currently inside out? No one folds them in that condition.
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Mister Micawber Are the clothes currently inside out? No one
Yes. Do you ask my original sentences to flip(?), or do you say something else?
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onizodo you say something else?
I am saying that what I read seems highly unlikely to be used or useful.
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What do you mean? They are correct but not natural to use, and no one say much for such instruction?

so you would just say: fold like this, is that it?
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Make sure the clothes are all right-side out before you fold them.

(I confess that socks and t-shirts have been folded and put in drawers the wrong way out at my house.)
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BarbaraPAMake sure the clothes are all right-side out before you fold them. (I confess that socks and t-shirts have been folded and put in drawers the wrong way out at my house.)
Thank you.

Then are both forms correct?

1. The right side out, please.
2. Right side out, please.

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