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Tashiro Posted 16 years ago
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Hi, please help me.
"Look, there’s smoke coming from six stories up."
Is "up" necessary in this sentence?
"Look, there’s smoke coming from six stories up."
Is "up" necessary in this sentence?
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Yes -in that sentence "up" is needed to indicate the position of the smoke. If the speaker is on ground level this would be the sixth floor. from six stories above this one".
- Yes -in that sentence "up" is needed to indicate the position of the smoke.
- If the speaker is on ground level this would be the sixth floor.
- from six stories above this one".
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Yes -in that sentence "up" is needed to indicate the position of the smoke.
If the speaker is on ground level this would be the sixth floor. If you want to say it another way you could say "...from the sixth floor"
If the speaker is not at ground level ".......from six stories above this one".
If the speaker is on ground level this would be the sixth floor. If you want to say it another way you could say "...from the sixth floor"
If the speaker is not at ground level ".......from six stories above this one".
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tashiro"Look, there’s smoke coming from six stories up."Yes. If you leave out "up", you are saying that smoke is coming from six different stories of the same building (i.e., from six different levels). That's a lot of smoke!
Is "up" necessary in this sentence?
CJ
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