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Ann225 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar
Toil away
Hi,
Would using ‘toil away’ in this sentence raise any eyebrows or is it okay?
“It was almost ten o’clock in the evening, and my dad was still toiling away in the garden.”
Thank you.
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Ann225 Would using ‘toil away’ in this sentence raise any eyebrows or is it okay? I'm fine with it. It makes the narrator sound rather refined.
- Ann225 Would using ‘toil away’ in this sentence raise any eyebrows or is it okay?
- I'm fine with it.
- It makes the narrator sound rather refined.
- I would say it's of upper-medium register.
- The Oxford English Dictionary puts the verb "toil" in their Frequency Band 5, "literate vocabulary associated with educated discourse", along with such other words as "tumult" and "penchant", but I'd say it would be more familiar to the average person than either of those.
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Ann225Would using ‘toil away’ in this sentence raise any eyebrows or is it okay?
I'm fine with it. It makes the narrator sound rather refined. I would say it's of upper-medium register. The Oxford English Dictionary puts the verb "toil" in their Frequency Band 5, "literate vocabulary associated with educated discourse", along with such other words as
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