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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Out of reach
'I want to touch my star but it is out of my reach'. I heard a little girl saying that. Is that correct?
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Spot on again, Maj. ' If you had heard her repeating it a number of times, 'saying' would have been correct.
- Spot on again, Maj.
- ' If you had heard her repeating it a number of times, 'saying' would have been correct.
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Spot on again, Maj.
I would write: 'I heard a little girl say that.' If you had heard her repeating it a number of times, '
I would write: 'I heard a little girl say that.' If you had heard her repeating it a number of times, '
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out of my reach is possible, but more likely to occur in writing than speeh,
an informal speaker would be more likely to say "but I can't reach it."
an informal speaker would be more likely to say "but I can't reach it."
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