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Behnazzz Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

the world over

So the people here in the garden aren't necessarily all speaking the same language or sharing the same culture, but they all have a love of gardening which universally the world over, diehard gardeners all have something in common and it's a really great social glue that binds people here together.

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What is the meaning of "which universally the world over" in this part?

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The whole sentence is badly written, and that phrase is particularly bad, Behnazzz. It seems that the writer simply wanted to say that 'gardeners all over the world have something in common'.

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  • The whole sentence is badly written, and that phrase is particularly bad, Behnazzz.
  • It seems that the writer simply wanted to say that 'gardeners all over the world have something in common'.
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The whole sentence is badly written, and that phrase is particularly bad, Behnazzz. It seems that the writer simply wanted to say that 'gardeners all over the world have something in common'.
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The phrase "the world over" is used to show how universal something is. To combine it with "universally" makes it redundant.

I'd write it "But there is a love of gardening the word over, and gardening can be a social glue that binds people together."
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Hi ,

Thanks

But finally i didn't underestand the world over refers to the love of gardening or the diehard gardeners?

Which one is correct?

Onething that is strange to me is the used word "which"? shouldnt it have been which is universally(the world over)?Maby here "which" has another meaning?

Maybe the world over is used as an adj like di
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the world over=everywhere, or all over the world

all gardeners (from everywhere or from all over the world) have a common love

all gardeners have a love

THAT'S IT
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Grammar GeekThe phrase "the world over" is used to show how universal something is. To combine it with "universally" makes it redundant.

Not to mention superfluous, repetitive and not really needed.
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LOL. Thanks Philip.

The problem with the original sentence is that it's really poorly written. So you'll only make yourself crazy if you try to figure it all out.

It just means that a love for gardening is global and can unite people. Don't try to figure out the rest - it's a bad example to try to learn from.
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