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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
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taking out the windows of the car

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00One day night, while Ali was on his way to the shop, he suspiciously saw the parked car was stolen by the two thieves. They were taking out the windows of the car to steal the money from the car. He was very scared.0-
  

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0One day or One night? 02br 02br 00I'd say taking out the windows is strange. It sounds like they disassembled the windows to steal them.

  • 0One day or One night?
  • 02br 02br 00I'd say taking out the windows is strange.
  • It sounds like they disassembled the windows to steal them.
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0One day or One night? You can't have both at the same time.02br
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00I'd say taking out the windows is strange. It sounds like they disassembled the windows to steal them. Are you trying to say they were trying to steal some money left in the car or it was the windows they tried to steal?0-
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1b00One day night, while Ali was on his way to the shop,02b00 this is okay, as long as he GOES to the shop at night. I would expect he'd be on his way home at night, and coming FROM the shop, but in terms of grammar this is fine. 01b00EDIT: I completely missed "day night." Please pick one.02b02br
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0 GG: «They were breaking the car windows to steal whatever was inside»02br
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00 I think Vincent was right about this one because thiefs often ue special suckers to take windows' glasses out without breaking them. It is possible for cars whose glasses are fixed using "rubber tapes" with grooves in them. The grove on the outer side fixes the tape to the window opening and
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0My thieves weren't that considerate. I wish they had been a bit more gentle when they stole my stereo. Nice country you live in 050010id1
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0 I wish it were so, but the reason seems to be absolutly mere: in modern western cars glasses (especially the windscreen) are 01i00glued02i00 into openings to improve the body's rigidity and maybe they just won's yield to a sucker... I am not sure though. 0-
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0By the way, how do interpret "take out" in this context?02br
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00To me, it sounds like disassemble, definitely no breaking, the glass would be intact, one piece.0-
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0 «By the way, how do interpret "take out" in this context? To me, it sounds like disassemble, definitely no breaking, the glass would be intact, one piece.»02br
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00 You're right, but I don't know why "take out" doesn't convey this meaning:02br
00 «Take out — To extract; remove.»02br
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00 Maybe "pull out" would sound better? 0-
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0I think to remove makes the most sense here. 02br
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00I don't think we can literally pull out a window without breaking it.0-
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0 Hmmm. I'd be glad to hear what the natives think... Remember I mean pulling/taking out the 01i00glass02i00, not the window. 0-
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0Sorry. I used window and window glass interchangably in the context of cars because it's understood that the frame of a car window is not detachable since they are a part of the door. So I loosely interchange them. By the way, literally pulling out a window without first removing the bolts that fix the window onto the window regulator will break the glass, as far as I know. I might have misunde

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