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Ann225 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Echo, radio

Hi,

1) When somebody's voice can be heard from a big distance, can I use these?

"She has a shrill voice that carries across a big distance."

"She has a shrill voice, so when she speaks, her voice reverberates/echoes through the place she's in (hallway, restaurant)."


2) "I accidentally pressed the wrong button on my radio and I threw the stations off (balance)."

"I accidentally pressed the wrong button on my radio and I disrupted the stations."

"I accidentally pressed the wrong button on my radio and the stations got thrown into disarray."

What I'm trying to say is that my radio is set to five particular stations, but once I pressed the button, I lost some of them (All I got was static.) and the ones that were left were in the wrong order (My radio has numbers from 1 to 5 which refer to the stations.).

I'm curious about the use of the phrases I suggested. It'd be great if you could tell me which of them fit the context. Perhaps you can whip more suggestions off the top of your head.

Thank you so much.

  

Top answer

" We say a voice simply carries when it can be heard farther away than normal. " And yes, a voice can reverberate or ehco, but they are not the best words for what you are trying to say, I'll bet. ).

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  • " We say a voice simply carries when it can be heard farther away than normal.
  • " And yes, a voice can reverberate or ehco, but they are not the best words for what you are trying to say, I'll bet.
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Ann2251) When somebody's voice can be heard from a big distance, can I use these?"She has a shrill voice that carries across a big distance.""She has a shrill voice, so when she speaks, her voice reverberates/echoes through the place she's in (hallway, restaurant)."

We say a voice simply carries when it can be heard farther away than normal. "She has a shri

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1) You might say, for example: She has a shrill voice, and when she's in a hallway that carries the echo it busts your eardrums."


2) You might say: I did something and it screwed up all the station settings on my radio that I went to so much trouble to set up.

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