To the shore or ashore?
Hello. I would like to get an answer to a brief question, which is:
Is there any difference between these sentences?
It was getting dark so I decided to swim out of the sea and go ashore.
It was getting dark so I decided to swim out of the sea and go to/onto the shore.
Thanks in advance!
Top answer
You can't swim out of the sea because at some point you are not in the water any more. I'm not sure you can "go ashore" when you are bodily in the water. You go ashore from a ship.
- You can't swim out of the sea because at some point you are not in the water any more.
- I'm not sure you can "go ashore" when you are bodily in the water.
- You go ashore from a ship.
- The shore is more like the coastline than a single place.
- It's like saying you are going to go onto the coastline, which does not work.
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You can't swim out of the sea because at some point you are not in the water any more. I'm not sure you can "go ashore" when you are bodily in the water. You go ashore from a ship. The shore is more like the coastline than a single place. It's like saying you are going to go onto the coastline, which does not work. You need a comma between the clauses.
I might write "It was getting dark,
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