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Son_tiny Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

"High building" or "tall building"

0A few days ago, our teacher asked this question. We was dronning : "High" but our teacher shaked his head. He said that: "In this case you should use tall" . I dont know why. We always use the word: high instead of tall. But as he said, I was very surprise. So could you so kind to help me out: Which one is better in the case? Iwas so confuse and I thought that he was joking us, wasn't he? 0-
  

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0 BTW: 02br 02br 00>We 01font 00was02font 00 dronning02br 00 We 01b 00were02b 00 dro01b 00n02b 00ing02br 02br 00>I was so 01font 00confuse02font 02br 00 I was so confuse01b 00d02br 02br 02b 00>I 01font 00dont02font 00 know why02br 00 I 01b 00don't02b 00 know why02br 02br 00>I was very 01font 00surprise02br 00I was very surprise01b 00d02br 02br 02b 02font 0-

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  • 0 BTW: 02br 02br 00>We 01font 00was02font 00 dronning02br 00 We 01b 00were02b 00 dro01b 00n02b 00ing02br 02br 00>I was so 01font 00confuse02font 02br 00 I was so confuse01b 00d02br 02br 02b 00>I 01font 00dont02font 00 know why02br 00 I 01b 00don't02b 00 know why02br 02br 00>I was very 01font 00surprise02br 00I was very surprise01b 00d02br 02br 02b 02font 0-
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01cite10Son_tiny12cite10A few days ago, our teacher asked this question. We was dronning : "High" but our teacher 10shaked10 his head. He said that: "In this case you should use tall" . I dont know why. We always use the word: high instead of tall. But as he said, I was very surprise. So could you so kind to help me out: Which o
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0 Thank for correcting my mistakes. It was some silly mistakes i got even i knew those. I am trying to avoid these as much as i can. Thanks both of you.. 0-
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0As previously said, "tall" is the correct choice.02br
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1font00the adjective "tall " should be used for human-beings.02font02br
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00I'm sorry, but I must disagree. Certainly we use "tall" for people, but we do use tall for some objects, including buildings and t
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0Thank Grammar Greek and Seloc@n but in this case, why we use tall instead of high. Yesterday I asked some English people. They said that "both are Ok in the case" .Now it seems some Native Speakers consider high and tall are the same. Anyway thank for paying attention for my question. Have a good day, everybody.0-
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0 They are both used, but look at the frequency at the New York Times: 02br
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0 Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world because its peak is the highest above sea level.02br
00I don't know if it is also the tallest (from base to summit).0-
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0Hi All,02br
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00I teach English as a second language in Japan, and one of the professors at my school asked me this question yesterday. I told her I would think about it. This is my response that I put together, but I'm curious as to what you folks think. In general, I tried to keep it simple because our kids are first and second year high school (12-14 years old). An
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10- Mountains and buildings are always high.12br
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00If you did read the preceding posts, you'd see this part isn't true at all. In English, you will find references to "tall buildings" far, far more often than "high buildi
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