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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
To reach/get/come
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Thank you for allowing me to take part in this site. And also for letting me ask you a question.
I would like to know if the three following sentences are correct and mean the same:
We know you didn`t want to reach to this situation. ( I am not sure if I have to write reach to or just reach).
We know you didn`t want to get to this situation.
We know you didn`t want to come to this situation.
Maybe this should be asked in the Grammar forum, but it just deal with the usage of those verbs. I think all of those verbs can be used interchangeable in many occasions. Is this true?. Is it so in the case I propose?.
Sorry about my english, I hope I could be understood. Thank you!
Thank you for allowing me to take part in this site. And also for letting me ask you a question.
I would like to know if the three following sentences are correct and mean the same:
We know you didn`t want to reach to this situation. ( I am not sure if I have to write reach to or just reach).
We know you didn`t want to get to this situation.
We know you didn`t want to come to this situation.
Maybe this should be asked in the Grammar forum, but it just deal with the usage of those verbs. I think all of those verbs can be used interchangeable in many occasions. Is this true?. Is it so in the case I propose?.
Sorry about my english, I hope I could be understood. Thank you!
Top answer
In the first sentence you need just "reach", not "reach to". The first two sentences would usually be understood to mean more or less the same thing. You might use them if an undesirable situation arose, to tell the other person that you knew it wasn't their intention or desire for such a thing to happen.
- In the first sentence you need just "reach", not "reach to".
- The first two sentences would usually be understood to mean more or less the same thing.
- You might use them if an undesirable situation arose, to tell the other person that you knew it wasn't their intention or desire for such a thing to happen.
- I guess the third sentence could mean the same thing again, but it doesn't seem so natural to me.
- "come to this situation" could alternatively refer to someone's physical arrival at a place where the "situation" is occurring.
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In the first sentence you need just "reach", not "reach to".
The first two sentences would usually be understood to mean more or less the same thing. You might use them if an undesirable situation arose, to tell the other person that you knew it wasn't their intention or desire for such a thing to happen.
I guess the third sentence could mean the same thing again, but it doesn't
The first two sentences would usually be understood to mean more or less the same thing. You might use them if an undesirable situation arose, to tell the other person that you knew it wasn't their intention or desire for such a thing to happen.
I guess the third sentence could mean the same thing again, but it doesn't
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