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Stephenlearner Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Catch on, step on, ledge
Hi,
Can you look at these sentences and help to explain some questions?
Shaking with fear, Josiah backed away from the table’s edge. His heels caught on a ledge and he fell backwards. As he rolled over and leaped to his feet, he found himself standing in the middle of an earthenware dinner plate six feet across. Feeling as small as a mouse, he crept to the edge of the plate and then saw the cause of his fall. He had stumbled over a five-foot knife.
1) Can I say "his heels stepped on a ledge"?
2) What is the ledge? Is it the knife later mentioned?
Thank you.
Can you look at these sentences and help to explain some questions?
Shaking with fear, Josiah backed away from the table’s edge. His heels caught on a ledge and he fell backwards. As he rolled over and leaped to his feet, he found himself standing in the middle of an earthenware dinner plate six feet across. Feeling as small as a mouse, he crept to the edge of the plate and then saw the cause of his fall. He had stumbled over a five-foot knife.
1) Can I say "his heels stepped on a ledge"?
2) What is the ledge? Is it the knife later mentioned?
Thank you.
Top answer
1-- No, that is not the same. 2-- Yes.
- 1-- No, that is not the same.
- 2-- Yes.
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Thank you very much.
1. What is "catch on" and "step on" mean? what are their differences?
2. Why could the ledge be the knife? Is their similarity between ledge and knife?
1. What is "catch on" and "step on" mean? what are their differences?
2. Why could the ledge be the knife? Is their similarity between ledge and knife?
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1. What is "catch on" and "step on" mean? what are their differences?- There is no relationship between the two phrases. I caught my shirt on the doorknob; I caught my finger in the door.
- to grip, hook, or entangle: The closing door caught his arm.
- to allow (something) to become gripped, hooked, snagged,or entangled: He caught his coat on a nail.
- to grip, hook, or entangle: The closing door caught his arm.
- to allow (something) to become gripped, hooked, snagged,or entangled: He caught his coat on a nail.
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