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Titiwangsa Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Stay away from the kitchen, I don't want you to get burned.

Stay away from the stove, I don't want you to get burned.
Stay away from the kitchen, I don't want you to get burned.

When parent is cooking in the kitchen, we ask kid no too close to the stove.
If we want to kid go out from the kitchen, can we use stay away from the kitchen?
  

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eg Stay out of the kitchen!

  • eg Stay out of the kitchen!
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eg Stay out of the kitchen!
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"Stay out of the kitchen" more accurately expresses what would normally be meant.

Strictly speaking, your sentences are comma splices.
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Hmm... Would say then that stay away from + a place is incorrect? I often hear people say stay away from her (a person)
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Perfect Strangerstay away from
stay away from ~ avoid going/coming near (to)
stay out of ~ do not enter

Stay away from the cliff. There is no guard rail, and you may slip and fall to your death.
Stay out of that room. There is a hungry tiger in there, and it may attack you.

CJ

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