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Flowersun2013 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Is summer or winter countable?
"I would wake up early to bike five miles to school every morning, through the sizzling hot summer as well as the bitingly cold winter."
Two problems here:
1. Some of my friends say the sentence should be ".... the sizzling hot summers as well as the bitingly cold winters." Is summer or winter countable?
2. "as well as" or "and"? What is the difference? I felt using "and" should be better. I am not a native speaker, so I think I am missing some subtle differences.
Thank you for your help.
Two problems here:
1. Some of my friends say the sentence should be ".... the sizzling hot summers as well as the bitingly cold winters." Is summer or winter countable?
2. "as well as" or "and"? What is the difference? I felt using "and" should be better. I am not a native speaker, so I think I am missing some subtle differences.
Thank you for your help.
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flowersun2013 1. Some of my friends say the sentence should be ".... " Is summer or winter countable?
- flowersun2013 1.
- Some of my friends say the sentence should be "....
- " Is summer or winter countable?
- Absolutely!
- Nov 18, 2013 - Roger was born on March 4, 1949 in Chicago, IL.
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flowersun20131. Some of my friends say the sentence should be ".... the sizzling hot summers as well as the bitingly cold winters." Is summer or winter countable?Absolutely!
Nov 18, 2013 - Roger was born on March 4, 1949 in Chicago, IL. to Hank and Bernice where he spent many cold winters plowing snow and watching
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OK. Then would both of the following be correct?
"I would wake up early to bike five miles to school every morning, through the sizzling hot summer and the bitingly cold winter."
"I would wake up early to bike five miles to school every morning, through sizzling hot summers and bitingly cold winters."
"I would wake up early to bike five miles to school every morning, through the sizzling hot summer and the bitingly cold winter."
"I would wake up early to bike five miles to school every morning, through sizzling hot summers and bitingly cold winters."
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This is how I interpret your sentences. They are basically the same except for the plural forms of summer and winter in #2. " I would ...." connotes recounting what you had done as a routine in the past. Semantically, the first one seemes to tell the reader that you only did it for a year, whereas # 2 suggests you had done this routine for many years.
I would change it a little to:
I would change it a little to:
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flowersun2013"I would wake up early to bike five miles to school every morning, through sizzling hot summers and bitingly cold winters."I think If you say 'summers' or 'winters', then that has the sense that you had done that for more than one summer or winter, not just for one summer or winter. You did that every summer and winter until the situation (of yo
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I would also replace "to ( ride my ) bike five miles to school..." with " and ride my bike five miles to school.."
The difference may be subtle but consider these example
I would wake up early to walk to work. (to me this seems like the purpose of your waking up early was "walking to work", rather than just "going to work")
I would wake up early an
The difference may be subtle but consider these example
I would wake up early to walk to work. (to me this seems like the purpose of your waking up early was "walking to work", rather than just "going to work")
I would wake up early an
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Wow thank you everyone for your help! I now finally have an in-depth understanding of the different ways of saying things in English.
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