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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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Something like that
Hi teachers. Would "Something like that" be a natural response here if the speaker doesn't know the age of the man in question?
Question: How old is he? Thirty?
Response: Yeah. Something like that.
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anonymous Would "Something like that" be a natural response here if the speaker doesn't know the age of the man in question? Not exactly. The response indicates that the speaker thinks that the man is approximately thirty years old.
- anonymous Would "Something like that" be a natural response here if the speaker doesn't know the age of the man in question?
- Not exactly.
- The response indicates that the speaker thinks that the man is approximately thirty years old.
- It doesn't indicate that he doesn't know at all what age the man could be.
- CJ
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anonymousWould "Something like that" be a natural response here if the speaker doesn't know the age of the man in question?
Not exactly. The response indicates that the speaker thinks that the man is approximately thirty years old. It doesn't indicate that he doesn't know at all what age the man could be.
CJ
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