Is there a difference?
I have read the following sentence:
The nice boy smiled up at the girl from the first floor.
I only know the form:
The nice boy smiled at the girl from the first floor.
Can somebody explain me the difference between the two sentences?
Top answer
file tile 16 smiled up at the girl from the first floor ~ smiled at the girl, looking up at her from where he was, namely, on the first floor The girl was on the second or third or higher floor of the building. CJ
- file tile 16 smiled up at the girl from the first floor ~ smiled at the girl, looking up at her from where he was, namely, on the first floor The girl was on the second or third or higher floor of the building.
- CJ
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file tile 16smiled up at the girl from the first floor
~ smiled at the girl, looking up at her from where he was, namely, on the first floor
The girl was on the second or third or higher floor of the building.
CJ
0file tile 16The nice boy smiled up at the girl from the first floor.
That is ambiguous. The tall girl might have been from the first floor, or he might have been short. The sentence needs to be rewritten better, and "nice boy" has to go, too. It reads like an attempt to use all the letters in some alphabet.
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