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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

How do they sound different?

I was at the reading of something.
I was reading something.

How do they sound different?
  

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" means that you were present at an occasion when the thing mentioned was being formally read out by someone else. "I was at the reading of something" seems vague and rather unlikely to be said. A specific example might be "I was at the reading of the will".

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  • " means that you were present at an occasion when the thing mentioned was being formally read out by someone else.
  • "I was at the reading of something" seems vague and rather unlikely to be said.
  • A specific example might be "I was at the reading of the will".
  • I believe you know what "I was reading something" means.
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"I was at the reading of ..." means that you were present at an occasion when the thing mentioned was being formally read out by someone else. "I was at the reading of something" seems vague and rather unlikely to be said. A specific example might be "I was at the reading of the will".

I believe you know what "I was reading something" means.
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