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MeggPhaggSioux Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Going Off
If I am offering advice to a guy and he questions the source of my advice and I want to say I got it from someone else:
a) "I am just going by what someone told me."
b) "I am just going off what someone told me."
I made up "going off" from a) and the phrase "reading off a page". Do you think b) might pass muster with native readers/speakers.
a) "I am just going by what someone told me."
b) "I am just going off what someone told me."
I made up "going off" from a) and the phrase "reading off a page". Do you think b) might pass muster with native readers/speakers.
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A sounds fine; B sounds odd to me. ) 'Reading off' (a literal action) is not necessarily translatable into 'going off' (a metaphoric one).
- A sounds fine; B sounds odd to me.
- ) 'Reading off' (a literal action) is not necessarily translatable into 'going off' (a metaphoric one).
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A sounds fine; B sounds odd to me. ('I'm just going from' seems familiar, though.) 'Reading off' (a literal action) is not necessarily translatable into 'going off' (a metaphoric one).
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