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Guest Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Directions
Teachers, could you tell me the following, thank you.
When giving directioins, how should I use the verb "carry on"?
If I tell people to go along the street and cross two other streets, and continue to walk on the same street, what should I say?
How do I use the cinema as the reference to tell people where the bookshop is when it is not immediately opposite the cinema, it is like this:
bookshop
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
cinema
When giving directioins, how should I use the verb "carry on"?
If I tell people to go along the street and cross two other streets, and continue to walk on the same street, what should I say?
How do I use the cinema as the reference to tell people where the bookshop is when it is not immediately opposite the cinema, it is like this:
bookshop
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
cinema
Top answer
' (2) It looks like you have placed the bookshop directly opposite the cinema in your illustration, Guest, but if it is not directly across the street, you can still say, for instance: 'across from the cinema and down two doors', or 'almost opposite the cinema but a bit farther down the block'.
- ' (2) It looks like you have placed the bookshop directly opposite the cinema in your illustration, Guest, but if it is not directly across the street, you can still say, for instance: 'across from the cinema and down two doors', or 'almost opposite the cinema but a bit farther down the block'.
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(1) 'Go down this street and carry on past the second cross-street/intersection.'
(2) It looks like you have placed the bookshop directly opposite the cinema in your illustration, Guest, but if it is not directly across the street, you can still say, for instance: 'across from the cinema and down two doors', or 'almost opposite the cinema but a bit farther down the block'.
(2) It looks like you have placed the bookshop directly opposite the cinema in your illustration, Guest, but if it is not directly across the street, you can still say, for instance: 'across from the cinema and down two doors', or 'almost opposite the cinema but a bit farther down the block'.
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Yes, 'continue in the same direction'. That's how I use it in this situation, anyway.
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Thank you Mister Micawber and Pieanne. I meant to place the cinema a little further in the right.
I have one more question about giving directions. If two shops are on the two ends of a diagonal of an intersection, how would you tell the location of one shop by giving the location of the other shop? By the way, is my question grammatically correct? Please correct any errors. Thank you very
I have one more question about giving directions. If two shops are on the two ends of a diagonal of an intersection, how would you tell the location of one shop by giving the location of the other shop? By the way, is my question grammatically correct? Please correct any errors. Thank you very
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'If two shops are on the two ends of a diagonal of an intersection, how would you tell the location of one shop by giving the location of the other shop?' This question seems clearly written.
You can say 'the bookshop is diagonally across from/opposite the cinema'. In my family, my mother always said 'the bookshop is kitty-cornered from the cinema'. I thought this was sl
You can say 'the bookshop is diagonally across from/opposite the cinema'. In my family, my mother always said 'the bookshop is kitty-cornered from the cinema'. I thought this was sl
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I've seen a big debate about kitty corners somewhere else and the conclusion was that it was US and completely unheard of in Britain.
I certainly would not have had a clue what it meant, I would be looking for a pet shop or something. There is no quick way of describing this situation in Brit English, and until I heard this new phrase (to me) it never crossed my mind how useful it wo
I certainly would not have had a clue what it meant, I would be looking for a pet shop or something. There is no quick way of describing this situation in Brit English, and until I heard this new phrase (to me) it never crossed my mind how useful it wo
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There is no quick way of describing this situation in Brit English
Interestingly cool, Nona. Would BrE have caterways or caterwise? (I'm not sure if they're all that common today in North American English.)
Source: www.wordlwidewords.org
It has lots of variant forms, such as catercorner, kitty-cornered, cata-cornered, and cater-cornered, a sur
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nope, cater means nothing here either,
Best we can do is 'diagonally across from'.
Best we can do is 'diagonally across from'.
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In truth, I hadn't heard the word "kitty-corner" until I moved from the East to the West. It was an odd sounding term then, too.
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