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Ant_222 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

At/on the other side (aka Yet Another Tiny Question)

0 Hello everbody, before you is another description form a game I am translating. I'd like you to help me choose between "on" and "at".02br
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00 «I stood at the bottom of the ancient open mine. Possibly, here was where the raw materials were mined for the military factory _at_ the other side of the tunnel, the entrance to which was in the south.»02br
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00 + Hope it's clear that "which" refers to "tunnel"...02br
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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00before you is another description form a game I am translating. 02br 02br 01font 00«I stood at the bottom of the ancient open mine. »02br 02br 00+ Hope it's clear that "which" refers to "tunnel"...

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00before you is another description form a game I am translating.
  • 02br 02br 01font 00«I stood at the bottom of the ancient open mine.
  • »02br 02br 00+ Hope it's clear that "which" refers to "tunnel"...
  • 02font 00No, it's not clear to me.
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00before you is another description form a game I am translating. I'd like you to help me choose between "on" and "at".02font00 Either seems OK.02br
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01font00«I stood at the bottom of the ancient open mine. Possibly, here was where the raw materials were mined for th
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01cite10Clive12cite10Is the military factory at the other side of the tunnel12blockquote
10 There's something wrong here. First if you say 01i00side of the tunnel02i00 you are refering to left and right. In this case the preposition would be "01i00on"02i00. i.e. "01i
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0Hi,02br
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01font00if you say 01i00side of the tunnel02i00 you are refering to left and right 02font00Not necessarily. Only if I am facing 'aong the tunnel, ie towards the exit. 02br
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00Let's say the tunnel runs from east to west.02br
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00'The use of the term 'at
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0 «Is the military factory at the other side of the tunnel, or is that where the mining is done?»02br
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00 This mining was done "here" — right where the hero stands: "..._here_ was where the raw materials had been mined for the military factory on the other end of the tunnel" — I have made two changes:02br
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00 1) Past Perfect ("had been mined") —
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0 Any feedback on the last version? 0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00«I stood at the bottom of the ancient open mine. Possibly, here was where the raw materials had been mined for the military factory which was 01font00at02font00 the other end of the tunnel. The entrance to the tunnel was in the south.»02font02br
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0 Thanks for the reply.02br
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00 So, if I want to mention a direction relative to the hero's current location, only "To the south/north/east" works... Hmmm. The one who was helping me with the translation didn't mind when I proposed to alternate "To" and "In" so as to make the descriptins a little more varied. All navigation is based on the four directions which makes t
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0 I thought tunnels went through something. So don't they have two entrances? Which one would be 01b00the02b00 entrance? I didn't get that part.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10 I thought tunnels went through something.  So don't they have two entrances?  Which one would be 11b10the12b10 entrance?  I didn't get that part.12blockquote
10There's a rock ridge wit a tunnel through it. The hero's on one side of of the ridge, and naturally he can see
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01cite10Ant_22212cite10he can see only one tunnel's end.12blockquote
10But not another tunnel's end? (Now you have more than one tunnel!) I think you meant to say that he can see only one end of the tunnel. 05002br
00In any case, I assume that the end of the tunnel he can see is the "entrance". Got
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