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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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0A house has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 living room and 1 dining room. 02br
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0 3+2+1+1=7 -> Seven rooms.02br
00I have five fingers on each hand (on or in each hand?).02br
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00A question for you. What the heck were those questions for? What's the problem with them? 050010id1
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0I thought a person had 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. 02br
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00Also, in my language, we have 20 fingers 050010id1
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0Aaaaargh! First I was like "Huh?", then I got it and I laughed, then I checked in my dictionary out of curiosity and I was like "Aaargh!". Looks like very weird difference between Italian and English. I wonder how many languages make that distinction. In Italian they are all fingers! 05002br
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00Finger: one of the four long thin par
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0 I believe that realtors count all the rooms except the kitchen and the bath(s). 0-
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0I can count to 10 on my fingers.02br
00I can count to 20 if I also use my toes. 050010id4
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10Aaaaargh! First I was like "Huh?", then I got it and I laughed, then I checked in my dictionary out of curiosity and I was like "Aaargh!". Looks like very weird difference between Italian and English. I wonder how many languages make that distinction. In Italian they are all fingers! 15012br
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0Hi,02br
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00The word 'finger' can sometimes be used to mean "excluding the thumbs", so you could say "I have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs". 05002br
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00Longman: one of the four long thin parts on your hand, not including your thumb.02br
00Oxford: 00one of the four long thin parts that stick out from the hand (or five, if the thumb is included)02br
00Merriam-Webster: any of the five terminating members of the hand : a digit of the forelimb espe
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0I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think you do count the kitchen, but not the bathrooms (and not the basement, even if it's finished), in real estate ads.0-
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0Hi Kooyeen02br
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00It's partly your fault. You posted the information that a person has eight fingers, quoting from Longman. So you should be sent to the Grammar Court to be tried. 02br
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00You should have at least two dictionaries because sometimes the definitions are different and sometimes there are more definitions for a particular word in one d
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