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Thecryingclown1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
astonishing or surprising
please help me to fill in this sentence and teach me how to discriminate astonishing and surprising
we have just been told some ____(astonishing/surprising)
we have just been told some ____(astonishing/surprising)
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Neither works: it is not a complete sentence and no hint is supplied by context as to which word is more appropriate (if either is).
- Neither works: it is not a complete sentence and no hint is supplied by context as to which word is more appropriate (if either is).
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Neither works: it is not a complete sentence and no hint is supplied by context as to which word is more appropriate (if either is).
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Yeah, my bad. i missed something. The whole sentence is " we have juse been told some ____(astonishing/surprising) news
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Same problem.
To hear my sister was coming for a visit would be surprising news. To hear my 55-year-old sister was about to become a mother would be astonishing. But you don't have enough to context to hear whether you got surprising news or astonishing news.
To hear my sister was coming for a visit would be surprising news. To hear my 55-year-old sister was about to become a mother would be astonishing. But you don't have enough to context to hear whether you got surprising news or astonishing news.
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that sentence is my homework. so i should tell my teacher that the sentence she gave me was not correct and i could use both astonishing and surprising?
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Either word could be appropriate. It depends on context. You weren't given any context, so it's impossible to answer.
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