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Ann225 Posted 6 years ago
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As you go

Hi,

“As you go/ you’ll go from episode to episode, you’ll start piecing everything together.”

I’d use the first option, but I was wondering if the second one is also possible in this case.

Thank you.


  

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As you go from episode to episode, you’ll start piecing everything together. -- We would normally understand "as" here to mean that the two things happen concurrently. It is not impossible to interpret "as" as meaning "because", but this is not the normal reading.

  • As you go from episode to episode, you’ll start piecing everything together.
  • -- We would normally understand "as" here to mean that the two things happen concurrently.
  • It is not impossible to interpret "as" as meaning "because", but this is not the normal reading.
  • As you'll go from episode to episode, you’ll start piecing everything together.
  • -- In this case we interpret "as" as meaning "because", though it is not a very clear sentence to read.
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As you go from episode to episode, you’ll start piecing everything together. -- We would normally understand "as" here to mean that the two things happen concurrently. It is not impossible to interpret "as" as meaning "because", but this is not the normal reading.

As you'll go from episode to episode, you’ll start piecing everything together. -- In this case we interpret "a

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