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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

"Tomorrow you will talk to a guy standing next to the entrance."

I want to ask who is standing next to the entrance? The guy or you?
  

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Hi, The guy. Clive

  • Hi, The guy.
  • Clive
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Thanks.. But my English teacher, he insists that maybe it is you not the guy standing next to the entrance.
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AnonymousThanks.. But my English teacher insists that maybe it is you not the guy who is standing next to the entrance.
In this sentence:

Tomorrow you will talk to a guy standing next to the entrance.

The phrase standing next to the entrance would be interpreted by a native speaker as modifying guy.

If yo
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AnonymousI want to ask who is standing next to the entrance? The guy or you?
When I talk to someone, we are both standing in essentially the same place, so both are standing next to the entrance - unless they're talking on the phone - but there's nothing in the sentence about a phone. And anyway, if it's on the phone, the location of either at the ent
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