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Rotter Posted 16 years ago
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Fly
Pigeon keepers in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, say that the once-popular Bengali tradition of rearing and flying the birds is fast dying out.
They say that new multi-storey housing blocks in the city have meant that pigeons get easily disorientated and have fewer places to fly to.
The birds have also in recent years been killed by people for food.
Unlike in the West, urban pigeons are not seen as the disease-ridden source of droppings.
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Birds have fewer places to fly to.
You will read the above in the paragraph.
I think it is enough 'Birds have fewer places to fly'.
What is the necessity of writing 'to fly to'.?
They say that new multi-storey housing blocks in the city have meant that pigeons get easily disorientated and have fewer places to fly to.
The birds have also in recent years been killed by people for food.
Unlike in the West, urban pigeons are not seen as the disease-ridden source of droppings.
............................................................................................................................................................................
Birds have fewer places to fly to.
You will read the above in the paragraph.
I think it is enough 'Birds have fewer places to fly'.
What is the necessity of writing 'to fly to'.?
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Rotter I think it is enough 'Birds have fewer places to fly'. What is the necessity of writing 'to fly to'.? Without "to", a reader might think that the birds have fewer places to fly around in .
- Rotter I think it is enough 'Birds have fewer places to fly'.
- What is the necessity of writing 'to fly to'.?
- Without "to", a reader might think that the birds have fewer places to fly around in .
- In short, a place to fly is an area in which flying can be done; a place to fly to is a destination -- the end point of the flight.
- CJ
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RotterI think it is enough 'Birds have fewer places to fly'.Without "to", a reader might think that the birds have fewer places to fly around in.
What is the necessity of writing 'to fly to'.?
In short, a place to fly is an area in which flying can be done; a place to fly
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