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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
gush/spurt
Hi,
1) Should I use 'gush' or 'spurt'? 'unusual' or 'untypical'?
2) Is the sentence clear? Can you seuggest some way in which we can keep the meaning of the sentence but yet make it more clear? Thank you
Hidden behind a giant, for speedboats compeltely unusual/untypical, vertical gush/spurt of water which raised 15 meters behind the stern of our boat while we were rushing towards the open sea, was the town of Rovinj.
1) Should I use 'gush' or 'spurt'? 'unusual' or 'untypical'?
2) Is the sentence clear? Can you seuggest some way in which we can keep the meaning of the sentence but yet make it more clear? Thank you
Hidden behind a giant, for speedboats compeltely unusual/untypical, vertical gush/spurt of water which raised 15 meters behind the stern of our boat while we were rushing towards the open sea, was the town of Rovinj.
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Ugh. Hidden behind a vertical 15-meter jet of water rising behind the stern of our boat while we were rushing towards the open sea was the town of Rovinj . This giant spurting of water is unusual for speedboats .
- Ugh.
- Hidden behind a vertical 15-meter jet of water rising behind the stern of our boat while we were rushing towards the open sea was the town of Rovinj .
- This giant spurting of water is unusual for speedboats .
- You can only squeeze so much information into a single sentence, Antonia, unless you are Marcel Proust.
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Ugh.
Hidden behind a vertical 15-meter jet of water rising behind the stern of our boat while we were rushing towards the open sea was the town of Rovinj. This giant spurting of water is unusual for speedboats.
You can only squeeze so much information into a single sentence, Antonia, unless you are Marcel Proust.
Hidden behind a vertical 15-meter jet of water rising behind the stern of our boat while we were rushing towards the open sea was the town of Rovinj. This giant spurting of water is unusual for speedboats.
You can only squeeze so much information into a single sentence, Antonia, unless you are Marcel Proust.
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Thank you Mister Micawber.
p.s. I am not Marcel Proust but I am one of the few people (that I know) who like
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