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Tara2 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Away

Why is "away" in the first sentence correct but not in the second?

1- She doesn't like being away.

2- I can see the target away.

  

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g. , which I expect are familiar to you. " does not work in general cases.

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  • g.
  • , which I expect are familiar to you.
  • " does not work in general cases.
  • It may be possible in certain special cases, but not in (2).
  • (2) may have marginal interpretations, but essentially you can consider it not natural.
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"She doesn't like being away" is grammatically analogous to e.g. "She doesn't like being cold", "She doesn't like being poor" etc., which I expect are familiar to you. The pattern "I can see + noun + adj." does not work in general cases. It may be possible in certain special cases, but not in (2). (2) may have marginal interpretations, but essentially you can consider it not natural.

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Tara2- She doesn't like being away.

Also, She doesn't like to be away.

'to be away' is rather elliptical. It suggests "to be away from home", "to be away from the office", or any similar idea of being absent from a place, where you have to supply the missing place according to context.

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