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Hotmale Posted 5 years ago
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Photo position

Hello,

I'd like to describe someone's position in a group photo. Is this sentence correct? "He is in the lower/bottom row, third to the left". If not, how to say it properly?

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He is in the lower/bottom row, third from the left. example: x x x x x x x x x x x x X x x x x

— Clive

  • He is in the lower/bottom row, third from the left.
  • example: x x x x x x x x x x x x X x x x x
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He is in the lower/bottom row, third from the left.

example:

x x x x x x

x x x x

x x X x x x x

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You might say, for example:


X, Y, and Z are sitting in the lower row, the first three people from the left end.


But this identification of people in photos is notoriously bad. It's almost impossible to give a complete identification of a group photo by words only. The best way to identify the people is to have a picture of the photo in silhouette form, with all the silho

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It would be an unusual arrangement that had a bottom row. They would have to be on a scaffold of some kind or looking out of the Centre Pompidou. It's the front row, even if they are sitting on a lower step or something.

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