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Angliholic Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
The next-to-last page
Most of the answers come easily to Zinkoff, until on the next-to-last page he arrives at a question that stumps him:
Who is your best friend?
Hi,
Does "the next-to-last page" in the above mean "the next and last page" or something else? Thanks.
Who is your best friend?
Hi,
Does "the next-to-last page" in the above mean "the next and last page" or something else? Thanks.
Top answer
No. Next to last = the page before the last page; the penultimate page.
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- Next to last = the page before the last page; the penultimate page.
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No. Next to last = the page before the last page; the penultimate page.
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I love the word 'penultimate'. It's one of several words that I learned in a foreign language before learning it in English. Other favorites, for the same reason, are 'soporific' and 'ephemeral'.
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