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New2grammar Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

under/beneath/underneath

0a box under/beneath/underneath the tree02br
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00a box under/beneath/underneath the desk 02br
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00Are these 3 prepositions interchangable?Any significant difference in meaning?0-
  

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0Honestly, I can't see much difference in them. One dictionary I just looked at said "underneath" has the meaning of being 01i 00directly02i 00 under something - not intervening layers, I guess. 0-

— BarbaraPA

  • 0Honestly, I can't see much difference in them.
  • One dictionary I just looked at said "underneath" has the meaning of being 01i 00directly02i 00 under something - not intervening layers, I guess.
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0Honestly, I can't see much difference in them. One dictionary I just looked at said "underneath" has the meaning of being 01i00directly02i00 under something - not intervening layers, I guess. But before I read that, I didn't know that it was that specific in meaning.0-
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0 They are not completely interchangeable in that certain idioms require a specific word. 02br
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01i00I won't help him [under / *beneath / *underneath] any circumstances.02br
00 Taking that sort of job would be [beneath / *underneath / *under] her.02br
00 The crime was co
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