Hear something other than voices (is it possible?)
How would you correctly write the sentence? I’d it correct to say « hear her nails »? One can hear a voice but can you hear nails?
You could hear her long nails clicking on/against the keyboard as she typed up a letter.
Is it also correct to hear someone cooking?
I could hear hear her cooking in the kitchen.
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You'd typically try to graphically connect the sound that you hear, with what the person is doing, for example: I could hear her long fingernails clacking on the computer keyboard as she typed a letter. I could hear her in the kitchen; she must have been cooking up something.
- You'd typically try to graphically connect the sound that you hear, with what the person is doing, for example: I could hear her long fingernails clacking on the computer keyboard as she typed a letter.
- I could hear her in the kitchen; she must have been cooking up something.
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You'd typically try to graphically connect the sound that you hear, with what the person is doing, for example:
I could hear her long fingernails clacking on the computer keyboard as she typed a letter.
I could hear her in the kitchen; she must have been cooking up something.
0They are both fine. I would write "on the keyboard", but "against" is not wrong.
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