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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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How deep and far

While giving an advise to someone I said: ‘I don’t know how deep and far you want to go…’ meaning I didn’t know if she needed just brief definition or maybe more serious article on the subject we were discussing. My son, for whom English is native tongue, said it doesn’t sound right and I should say ‘I don’t know in depth …’



Can you please help me? Which one is right? My son’s advise doesn’t sound right for me for some reason.



Thank you.
  

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Anonymous While giving an advi c e to someone I said: ‘I don’t know how deep and far you want to go…’ meaning I didn’t know if she needed just a brief definition or maybe more serious article on the subject we were discussing. My son, for whom English is native tongue, said it doesn’t sound right and I should say ‘I don’t know in depth …’ Can you please help me? Which one is right?

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  • Anonymous While giving an advi c e to someone I said: ‘I don’t know how deep and far you want to go…’ meaning I didn’t know if she needed just a brief definition or maybe more serious article on the subject we were discussing.
  • My son, for whom English is native tongue, said it doesn’t sound right and I should say ‘I don’t know in depth …’ Can you please help me?
  • Which one is right?
  • My son’s advi c e doesn’t sound right for me for some reason.
  • Thank you.
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AnonymousWhile giving an advice to someone I said: ‘I don’t know how deep and far you want to go…’ meaning I didn’t know if she needed just a brief definition or maybe more serious article on the subject we were discussing. My son, for whom English is native tongue, said it doesn’t sound right and I shou
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I would take "I don’t know how deep and far you want to go" as an oblique co-ordinated version of:

1. How deep do you want to go?

2. How far do you want to go?

— which both sound fine to me.

It reminds me of the last stanza of Frost's "Neither In Deep Nor Out Far":

They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
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Thank you very much for you answer.

Quoting my son I missed a word. I ment to say 'I don't know how in depth you want to go...' Now it probably better explaines why was I reluctant to accept his advice.
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VaivaraThank you very much for you answer.

Quoting my son I missed a word. I meant to say 'I don't know how in depth you want to go...' Now it probably better explaines why was I was reluctant to accept his advice.

You should use the answers provided by the Feebs and Pedantic.
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