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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

I'm back in Korea (four questions)

When you hear 'I'm back in Korea,' what comes to you mind?

Q1) Does it mean 'I' is a Korean citizen or at least a person who used to live in Korea?

Q2) Is 'back' used as adjective?

Q3) Do you not say 'I'm back to Korea?' ('I'm back in Korea' sounds a little weird even though you use it.)

Q4) What other expressions can you use?
  

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When you hear 'I'm back in Korea,' what comes to you mind? -- No, just someone who has been there before. -- No, an adverb, I think, even though the verb is the copula (just like 'He is in the bathtub').

  • When you hear 'I'm back in Korea,' what comes to you mind?
  • -- No, just someone who has been there before.
  • -- No, an adverb, I think, even though the verb is the copula (just like 'He is in the bathtub').
  • Perhaps 'to be back' is better considered idiomatic.
  • )-- No, we don't.
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When you hear 'I'm back in Korea,' what comes to you mind?

Q1) Does it mean 'I' is a Korean citizen or at least a person who used to live in Korea?-- No, just someone who has been there before.

Q2) Is 'back' used as adjective?-- No, an adverb, I think, even though the verb is the copula (just like 'He is in the bathtub'). Perhaps 'to be back' is better considered idiom

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