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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

inside or back of your nails

Hi,

How would you ask the following question?

When you ask someone to show you their nails, they'll show you the front of their nails.
Does when say front and back of nails or the backside and inside of the nail?

Can you show me the front of your nails?
Can you show me the back of your nails?
Can you show me the inside of your nails?

Here is a picture


Would you say

The inside of her nails are red.
The back of her nails are red.

How would you say it?

Thank you
  

Top answer

To see the back side of a fingernail, you would have to remove it. That was a favorite form of torture for medieval tyrants. The red is blood.

— AlpheccaStars

  • To see the back side of a fingernail, you would have to remove it.
  • That was a favorite form of torture for medieval tyrants.
  • The red is blood.
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To see the back side of a fingernail, you would have to remove it. That was a favorite form of torture for medieval tyrants.
The red is blood.
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It isn't torture I am talking about.

How would you ask someone to show their nails like in the picture.

Can you show me the front of your nails?
Can you show me the back of your nails?
Can you show me the inside of your nails?

Would you say

The inside of her nails are red.
The back of her nails are red.

How would you say it?

Thank
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Your picture isn't showing up if you're trying to post it in line. I suggest posting a link to it instead.
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When someone asks to see your nails, they will say 'Can you show me your nails?' There is no back, front, top, bottom inside or outside. They are a 2-dimensional plane, one face of which is inaccessible.
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Not if they are long,

If you type in google "louboutin manucure" and look at images you will see what I am trying to say.
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Was someone able to look at 'louboutin nails'?
If so do the following sentence make more sense? Which word would you use?

Can you show me the front of your nails?
Can you show me the back of your nails?
Can you show me the inside of your nails?

Would you say

The inside of her nails are red.
The back of her nails are red.

Thanks
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AnonymousWas someone able to look at 'louboutin nails'?
If you followed your own advice, you'd know that they speak of the 'underside', not the 'inside' or 'back'.
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I didn't know the word underside.
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AnonymousI didn't know the word underside.
It was in the passage to which you linked us.
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