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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

jump the queue

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0 In American English, we don't say 'jump the queue', however I think that expression is used in BE. 0-

— Yankee

  • 0 In American English, we don't say 'jump the queue', however I think that expression is used in BE.
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0 In American English, we don't say 'jump the queue', however I think that expression is used in BE. We'd use something such as 'cut in line' in AmE.02br
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00Otherwise, the wording of your sentence sounds a bit odd to me because it suggests that 'jumping the queue' was only rude just now, but might be perfectly polite at some other time.0-
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0That means my sentence is incorrect?02br
00We can't say,02br
00It is rude to jump the queue.02br
00The boy is rude to jump the queue.02br
00The rube boy jumped the queue. 0-
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0What Yankee said was that it sounded 01b00odd 02b00to say "It was rude to jump the queue 01i00just now02i00" because it sounds as though the act of jumping th queue is NOT rude at other times.02br
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00How can you take what she said, and then say that all of these other examples are wrong? They are all fine. 0-
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0 Isn't ? Jumped the queue is kind of rude action all the time. Why do you think that it is not rude all the time? 0-
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0Vincent, please re-read the replies. I think you got the wrong idea.0-
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01cite10Vincent Teo12cite10 Isn't ? Jumped the queue is kind of rude action all the time. Why do you think that it is not rude all the time? 12blockquote
10It seems there is a misunderstanding here.02br
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00Vincent,02br
00What the other posters were reacting to was your use of "just now" at
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0I'm afriad I'm somewhat in between.02br
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00How would you emphasize the time the event took place in the original sentence?02br
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00I would say, 02br
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00It was rude that he jumped quit/ cut in line just now. 0-
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0His rudeness is what was "just now."02br
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00He was rude just now when he cut in line.02br
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00Just now, he was rude when he cut in line.02br
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00He just cut in line! How rude!0-
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0I'm not sure I would even attempt to combine the two ideas in one sentence. 02br
00I'd suggest this as a possible alternative:02br
01i00Hey! Did you see the way he jumped the queue just now? How rude!02i0-
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0Yankee, I love it when we have the exact same idea! I like my "How rude!" version the best too!0-
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