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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Is this correct?
He smokes his cigarettes outside the bedroom window./from the bedroom window.
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"outside" implies that he is outside the room (and next to the window), whereas "from" sounds as if he is in the room and blowing the smoke out of the window.
- "outside" implies that he is outside the room (and next to the window), whereas "from" sounds as if he is in the room and blowing the smoke out of the window.
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"outside" implies that he is outside the room (and next to the window), whereas "from" sounds as if he is in the room and blowing the smoke out of the window.
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He smokes his cigarettes at/by the bedroom window.
If you want to specify exactly how he does that, you'll have to say.
If you want to specify exactly how he does that, you'll have to say.
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