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TeacherJapan Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

How to use "back and forth."

Does the expression "back and forth" go with "carry?" She had to carry trays between the kitchen and the dining room. Or is it safer to say, "She had to go back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room with trays?"
  

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" Yes. For example, you can add it to that first sentence: She had to carry trays back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room. "back and forth" goes with almost any verb of motion: go, carry, travel, walk, run, ...

  • " Yes.
  • For example, you can add it to that first sentence: She had to carry trays back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room.
  • "back and forth" goes with almost any verb of motion: go, carry, travel, walk, run, ...
  • CJ
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teacherJapanDoes the expression "back and forth" go with "carry?"
Yes. For example, you can add it to that first sentence: She had to carry trays back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room.

"back and forth" goes with almost any verb of motion: go, carry, travel, walk, run, ...

CJ
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Thank you very much for your help:-)

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