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Samerrustom Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Extended period VS long period

Is there any difference in meaning between the above please?

Can I say "Making a car is a long period process"?
Can I say " Traveling from China to the US is an expended period trip?
  

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Both sentences are fairly tortured. "extended period" and "long period" are fine by themselves, but using them before a noun to modify the noun can be awkward (also, if you did do it, a hyphen would be needed in "long-period" and "extended-period"). Compared with "long period", "extended period" is a more elaborate phrasing and can suggest that a period of time has been made longer than usual or than expected.

— GPY

  • Both sentences are fairly tortured.
  • "extended period" and "long period" are fine by themselves, but using them before a noun to modify the noun can be awkward (also, if you did do it, a hyphen would be needed in "long-period" and "extended-period").
  • Compared with "long period", "extended period" is a more elaborate phrasing and can suggest that a period of time has been made longer than usual or than expected.
  • This is not always the case though.
  • You wrote "ex p ended" instead of "ex t ended".
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Both sentences are fairly tortured. "extended period" and "long period" are fine by themselves, but using them before a noun to modify the noun can be awkward (also, if you did do it, a hyphen would be needed in "long-period" and "extended-period").

Compared with "long period", "extended period" is a more elaborate phrasing and can suggest that a period of time has been made longer than u
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I agree with GPY. They would be very unusual as adjectives, even if hyphenated.
I would use "long-term" in the first sentence and "long-haul" in the second.
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Thank you so much for your swift reply and I would like to ask you if you can give me an example for each one of them please
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If I may suggest a more idiomatic way to say those:

It takes a long time to make a car.
It takes a long time to travel from China to the U.S.

CJ
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CalifJimIf I may suggest a more idiomatic way to say those:It takes a long time to make a car.It takes a long time to travel from China to the U.S.
Indeed.
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