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Maple Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

collide with VS interfer with

Birds roosting and foraging near airports now ___with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets.

A tamper B interfere C rotate D collide







D is the correct answer, but do you think if B can also be acceptable?





Thank you in advance!
  

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I've always seen collide like 'to hit' and interfere like ' to take action'... So I don't think that B could be correct.

  • I've always seen collide like 'to hit' and interfere like ' to take action'...
  • So I don't think that B could be correct.
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I've always seen collide like 'to hit' and interfere like ' to take action'... So I don't think that B could be correct.
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B's too general and thus of no interest, the only specific one is D.

>interfere like ' to take action'
no, meddle with, mess with
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meddle with, nice word, that's what I wanted to say. (but I didn't know how) I will remember this one, sounds great to me^^
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Thank you MH [Y]

And Thank you Pao.[C]

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