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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
make one's way
Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way six blocks to Rexall's Drug Store.
Q) Does "make her way" sound old-fashioned or something?
Is it just another way of saying "... and went six blocks to Rexall's Drug Store?"
Q) Does "make her way" sound old-fashioned or something?
Is it just another way of saying "... and went six blocks to Rexall's Drug Store?"
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moon7296 Q) Does "make her way" sound old-fashioned or something? Yes. It is rather old-fashioned.
- moon7296 Q) Does "make her way" sound old-fashioned or something?
- Yes.
- It is rather old-fashioned.
- It means that she probably did not go there straight away, but may have stopped and talked to someone, or looked in a store window along the way.
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moon7296Q) Does "make her way" sound old-fashioned or something?Yes. It is rather old-fashioned.
It means that she probably did not go there straight away, but may have stopped and talked to someone, or looked in a store window along the way.
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AlpheccaStarsIt means that she probably did not go there straight away, but may have stopped and talked to someone, or looked in a store window along the way.... or had some sort of difficulty in getting there.
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