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Carthageois Posted 11 years ago
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Hey plz check my answers:

1)Can you reach that file on the top shelf? It's a bit too high/tall for me

2)I watched the climbers untill they were so tall/high that they appeared tiny specks against the clouds.

3)the city skyline was broken by the silhouettes of tall/high thin factory chimneys belching fumes into the atmosphere.

4)I was never really tall/high enough to get into the school basketball team.

The answers:
1)high
2)high
3)high
4) tall

It is possible to use both words tall or high in sone sentences?

Thanks
  

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carthageois The answers: 1)high 2)high 3) high tall 4) tall It is possible to use both words tall or high in sone sentences? Not interchangeably: tall is used for physical description; high is used for location. They could be used in the same sentence, however: The tall man was high up the mountain .

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  • carthageois The answers: 1)high 2)high 3) high tall 4) tall It is possible to use both words tall or high in sone sentences?
  • Not interchangeably: tall is used for physical description; high is used for location.
  • They could be used in the same sentence, however: The tall man was high up the mountain .
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carthageoisThe answers:
1)high
2)high
3)high tall
4) tall
It is possible to use both words tall or high in sone sentences?
Not interchangeably: tall is used for physical description; high is used for location.
They could be used in the same sentence, however: The tall man was high up the
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