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Angliholic Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

keep them from cracking in the pain

This method of boiling eggs will keep them from cracking/splitting/breaking in the pan.

I suspect that all of the underlined words fit in the above context, but are they identical in meaning?
  

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Cracking and splitting , in this context, sound the same, but breaking makes me think of breaking open -- that is, the inside of the egg would leak out into the water, rather than just a crack in the shell.

— BarbaraPA

  • Cracking and splitting , in this context, sound the same, but breaking makes me think of breaking open -- that is, the inside of the egg would leak out into the water, rather than just a crack in the shell.
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Cracking and splitting, in this context, sound the same, but breaking makes me think of breaking open -- that is, the inside of the egg would leak out into the water, rather than just a crack in the shell.
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Grammar GeekCracking and splitting, in this context, sound the same, but breaking makes me think of breaking open -- that is, the inside of the egg would leak out into the water, rather than just a crack in the shell.

Thanks, GG.

As a aside, how could eggs be boiled in a pan? Is it better to substitue "pot" for it
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I suppose when I'm being careful, I would refer the shallow, wide thing as a pan ,and the high-sided, smaller-diameter thing as a pot, but really "pots and pans" are considered collectively by many people (myself included). That is, the shallow, wide thing is never a pot, but the high-sided thing is a pot or a pan.
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