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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Landmark
If I wanted to use a building as a landmark to find my way through a place , what should I say ?
"I must commit this building to my memory." or
"I must remember this building." or
"I must know this building by heart."
"I must commit this building to my memory." or
"I must remember this building." or
"I must know this building by heart."
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" It is not the building, itself, that concerns you as much as it is the building "as a landmark," as you have said. We use landmarks as points of reference. The other two ways of expressing it, the first and third, make it sound too much as if the interest is in the actual structure, which it is not.
- " It is not the building, itself, that concerns you as much as it is the building "as a landmark," as you have said.
- We use landmarks as points of reference.
- The other two ways of expressing it, the first and third, make it sound too much as if the interest is in the actual structure, which it is not.
- "
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"I must remember this building."
It is not the building, itself, that concerns you as much as it is
the building "as a landmark," as you have said. We use
landmarks as points of reference. The other two ways of
expressing it, the first and third, make it sound too much
as if the interest is in the actual structure, which it is not.
"I must commit the location of this
It is not the building, itself, that concerns you as much as it is
the building "as a landmark," as you have said. We use
landmarks as points of reference. The other two ways of
expressing it, the first and third, make it sound too much
as if the interest is in the actual structure, which it is not.
"I must commit the location of this
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