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Mr. Tom Posted 3 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of 'further' as a verb

Hi

Could you please tell me if the use of further as a verb is natural here? Any other suggestions please?

  1. It's high time you furthered your education.
  2. I don't want to further the matter anymore.
  3. I don't want to further the topic anymore.
  4. There's no point in furthering the pursuit.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom Could you please tell me if the use of further as a verb is natural here? None of them work.

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  • Tom Could you please tell me if the use of further as a verb is natural here?
  • None of them work.
  • To further a thing is to help it forward.
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Mr. TomCould you please tell me if the use of further as a verb is natural here?

None of them work. To further a thing is to help it forward.

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Mr. TomI don't want to further the matter anymore.I don't want to further the topic anymore.There's no point in furthering the pursuit.

These are not good. You could change number 4 to there's no point in pursuing it further. That would be familiar and would work.

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Mr. TomCould you please tell me if the use of further as a verb is natural here?

Not really. Hard to explain, but I'll try. Further is fairly infrequently used verb meaning to help or assist in making progress towards some goal. It is more of an auxiliary rather than primary action, and is used in fairly limited contexts. It is uncommon in conversa

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Here's a few examples I found on fraze.it:

to further ______

services
his career
the cause
their skills
private interests
their education
growth of the network
their own propaganda
the organizations' activities
consolidation among banks

CJ

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