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Ty123 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Rooms

Are these okay and mean the same:

What’re they doing in those rooms?

And

What’re they doing in there?

  

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ty123 Are these okay and mean the same They're OK, but they don't have the same meaning. In the first one you specify that they are in rooms, so we know that. In the second one we don't know where they are.

— CalifJim

  • ty123 Are these okay and mean the same They're OK, but they don't have the same meaning.
  • In the first one you specify that they are in rooms, so we know that.
  • In the second one we don't know where they are.
  • What are they doing in there?
  • could be referring to being in a cave ( bears ), to being in a restaurant ( friends ), to being in a drawer ( photos ), and many other possible things, as well as being in those rooms.
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ty123Are these okay and mean the same

They're OK, but they don't have the same meaning.

In the first one you specify that they are in rooms, so we know that.
In the second one we don't know where they are.

What are they doing in there? could be referring to being in a cave (bears), to being in a restaurant (friends), to

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ty123Are these okay and mean the same:

Are these OK and do they mean the same?

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