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John liao Posted 12 years ago
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around and all around?
Original sentence: Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around.
What's the difference of: Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high around.
What's the difference of: Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high around.
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The original sentence apparently means that there is a roof over something, and that there is a space one cubit high, between the lowest part of the roof and the thing, on all four sides. The revised sentence does not convey this sense of the opening being on all four sides, and is ambiguous as to where the one cubit dimension is.
- The original sentence apparently means that there is a roof over something, and that there is a space one cubit high, between the lowest part of the roof and the thing, on all four sides.
- The revised sentence does not convey this sense of the opening being on all four sides, and is ambiguous as to where the one cubit dimension is.
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The original sentence apparently means that there is a roof over something, and that there is a space one cubit high, between the lowest part of the roof and the thing, on all four sides.
The revised sentence does not convey this sense of the opening being on all four sides, and is ambiguous as to where the one cubit dimension is.
The revised sentence does not convey this sense of the opening being on all four sides, and is ambiguous as to where the one cubit dimension is.
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