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Fernandes Lucas Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Goes Far Toward

Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well! I would like to know the meaning of this sentence "Goes Far Toward". The context is the following one: "Thomas Foster goes far toward breaking down the wall tha has long divided the academic and the common reader". Go far and Toward must be separeted to understand it? Thanks for your help!!!

  

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Fernandes Lucas "Thomas Foster goes far toward breaking down the wall that has long divided the academic and the common reader". "far" => a long way "forward" => the idea of making progress It is not very natural. Here is a paraphrase.

  • Fernandes Lucas "Thomas Foster goes far toward breaking down the wall that has long divided the academic and the common reader".
  • "far" => a long way "forward" => the idea of making progress It is not very natural.
  • Here is a paraphrase.
  • It is better in the present perfect, since there are books or articles that give evidence of the statement.
  • "Thomas Foster has made a lot of progress in breaking down the wall that has long divided the academic and the common reader".
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Fernandes Lucas"Thomas Foster goes far toward breaking down the wall that has long divided the academic and the common reader".

"far" => a long way

"forward" => the idea of making progress

It is not very natural. Here is a paraphrase. It is better in the present perfect, since there are books or articles that give evidence of the statemen

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"To go far toward something" is a fixed expression meaning to "contribute greatly" to it ( https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/go_far ). It is not uncommon but perhaps a bit literary for every day.

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