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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
fog/blanket of fog
Hello,
Can we say:
- A blanket of fog covered the town.
- A blanket of fog encompassed the town.
- A thick fog covered/encompassed the town.
Can we also use encompass and cover in collocation with "mist"?
Do they all sound natural?
Thank you
Can we say:
- A blanket of fog covered the town.
- A blanket of fog encompassed the town.
- A thick fog covered/encompassed the town.
Can we also use encompass and cover in collocation with "mist"?
Do they all sound natural?
Thank you
Top answer
- A blanket of fog covered the town. Good and natural. - A blanket of fog encompassed the town.
- - A blanket of fog covered the town.
- Good and natural.
- - A blanket of fog encompassed the town.
- Good but encompass is a little unusual in this context.
- - A thick fog covered/encompassed the town.
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- A blanket of fog covered the town. Good and natural.
- A blanket of fog encompassed the town. Good but encompass is a little unusual in this context.
- A thick fog covered/encompassed the town. Good with same comment about encompass.
Encompass is usually used, in my experience, when talking about scope. I couldn't say that it was wrong or odd to use it in your context here.
- A blanket of fog encompassed the town. Good but encompass is a little unusual in this context.
- A thick fog covered/encompassed the town. Good with same comment about encompass.
Encompass is usually used, in my experience, when talking about scope. I couldn't say that it was wrong or odd to use it in your context here.
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