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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

all the time

Hi,

1.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate on the road all the time.'

2.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate on the road the whole time.

3.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate on the road the entire time.'

4.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate all the way.'

Do the four sentences mean the same?

Thanks a lot.
  

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2 and 3 mean the same thing. " 4 sounds like an unnatuarl was to say 2 or 3.

  • 2 and 3 mean the same thing.
  • " 4 sounds like an unnatuarl was to say 2 or 3.
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2 and 3 mean the same thing.

1 sounds like a clumsy way to say "Whenever we'd go, Benjie would always eat something along the way."

4 sounds like an unnatuarl was to say 2 or 3.
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I would phrase the sentence this way:

"Benjie ate all his meals on the road when we drove to the beach."

That way, the meaning is clear.

#2 and #3 imply that when Benjie started driving he also started eating and did not stop eating until he arrived at the beach.

#1 is more clear, but I chose my rewording because it makes clear that several distinct meals were
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Hi GG and Scratch,

Thank you for your answers and kind help.

I have some more questions about your answers. Here as follows:

1.'Does 'along the way' mean 'the whole way'?

2.If I change the sentence #4 into:

2a 'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate all the way there.'
or
2b 'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate the whole way.'
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Along the way means "somewhere" along the way. We didn't eat lunch before we left because we knew we could find a bite somewhere along the way.

It is not the same as the whole way.

The most natural (to me) is "ate the whole way there."
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Hi, GG,

Thanks a lot for your kind help again.

I found another two examples from dictionary. Here they are:

1.Hannah didn't say a single word all the way back home (=during the whole of the journey).

2.He sat next to me in the car and slept the whole way.

Therefore, I would like to know if the following examples are correct
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Anonymous1.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate on the road all the time.'

2.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate on the road the whole time.

3.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate on the road the entire time.'

4.'When we drove to the beach, Benjie ate all the way.'

Do the four sentences mean the same?
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