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Sb70012 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Through / across

89. Walking …. the city after dark is not on the whole a good idea.

a)along
b)through (Answer Key)
c)alone
d)across

Source: text book

Hello,
Can "across" be correct as well?

Thank you
  

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'Walking across the city' is I would say correct but 'through' indicates being "in" among the buildings and also doesn't indicate any particular sense of route or distance travelled, whereas 'across' is more from one side to the other. d

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  • 'Walking across the city' is I would say correct but 'through' indicates being "in" among the buildings and also doesn't indicate any particular sense of route or distance travelled, whereas 'across' is more from one side to the other.
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'Walking across the city' is I would say correct but 'through' indicates being "in" among the buildings and also doesn't indicate any particular sense of route or distance travelled, whereas 'across' is more from one side to the other.

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Thanks for answering. I didn't understand your meaning. But city is not a river, then, does it make sense to say walking from one side of the city to the other?
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If you have a city 10 miles wide and someone walks 1 mile in it, maybe zigzagging around to different places, they are walking through the city, but not across it, because to walk across it they would need to walk most of the distance from one side to the other - say at least 5 miles or more, and in somewhat of a straight line.

So walking through the city best captures what
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