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Debpriya De Posted 15 years ago
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Away from
1. My house is a fair distance (away) from here.
2. I live a fair distance (away) from here.
What difference does the "away" make to the above sentences, syntactically and semantically ?
2. I live a fair distance (away) from here.
What difference does the "away" make to the above sentences, syntactically and semantically ?
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What do you mean by 'syntactic' difference? Semantically, it is just a 'clarifier' (to coin a term).
- What do you mean by 'syntactic' difference?
- Semantically, it is just a 'clarifier' (to coin a term).
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What do you mean by 'syntactic' difference?
Semantically, it is just a 'clarifier' (to coin a term).
Semantically, it is just a 'clarifier' (to coin a term).
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How is it that we can omit "away" and still express the same idea as we do without "away" in the above sentences, whereas in the sentence " Our parents live some distance away", we cannot do without "away" ?
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