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Ant_222 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Type away

Hello all,

I keep stumbling across the phrase "to type away", but I can't figure out whether its meaning is the same as that of just "to type" or not...

Need your help.
  

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Hi Ant He's been typing away for hours now. e. without taking any breaks).

— Yankee

  • Hi Ant He's been typing away for hours now.
  • e.
  • without taking any breaks).
  • Does that answer your question?
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Hi Ant

He's been typing away for hours now. That means he has been busily (or possibly fervently) typing, and suggests "non-stop" typing (i.e. without taking any breaks).

Does that answer your question?
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I associate away with continuity of action and a certain amount of absorption of the mind in the activity, mixed in many cases with an enjoyment of the activity. It's not a particularly formal device.

She was happily -- singing away; typing away; cooking away; whistling away

It doesn't work with every verb, of course,

The sound of the music was d
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Thank you, Yankee and CalifJIm!

When I am typing, I am away beause I am cunsumed by typing.
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When I am typing, I am away beause I am consumed cunsumed by typing.
Not a bad paraphrase! In a way, it issomething like that -- to my mind, anyway.
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Well, this in no way pretends to a definition, I just tried to convey the "business" aspect of your and Amy's explanations... in an exaggerated way.

I'm glad I've been understood!
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