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Davefromthefreeway Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

grammar problems

0 which one of the folowing is correct? 02br
00-penetrate the perimeter02br
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00-penetrate into the perimeter02br
00 thanks in advance0-
  

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02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

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0Hi Dave,02br
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00The former, because the perimeter is really just a line that surrounds something.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0 so the first one, "penetrate the perimeter?" I am not really sure what former means0-
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0Picure the thing you want to reach. Someone has made a circle around it - perhaps there are guards stationed along that circle, or alarms, or just a fence. If you get inside that circle, you have penetrated the perimeter.0-
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0The verb ‘penetrate’ as used here is a01b00 01i00vt02i02b00 ( transitive verb) whose action passes over from the doer or the subject to an object. This means it either doesn’t take a preposition to complete its meaning or have a subject in a sentence. For example, "The enemy penetrated our defense line" sounds fine but not "The enemy penetrated 01b
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01cite10Davefromthefreeway12cite10which one of the folowing is correct? 12br
10-penetrate the perimeter12br
10OR12br
10-penetrate into the perimeter12br
10 thanks in advance12
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0 Thanks everyone, i understand it now, and no i did not post this questions anywhere else.0-
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