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Teers Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Vice Versa
I'm not sure about how to use "vice versa"
Is this sample sentence correct?
When I look at her, she doesn't look at me and vice versa.
Is this sample sentence correct?
When I look at her, she doesn't look at me and vice versa.
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Welcome to EnglishForward, Teer, Vice versa means in reverse order. ' This particular sentence is interesting because the action depicted is a vice versa situation to begin with. So it's a vice versa of a vice versa.
- Welcome to EnglishForward, Teer, Vice versa means in reverse order.
- ' This particular sentence is interesting because the action depicted is a vice versa situation to begin with.
- So it's a vice versa of a vice versa.
- Fun.
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Welcome to EnglishForward, Teer,
Vice versa means in reverse order.
Therefore, in your sample sentence it reverses the order to, 'When she looks at me, I don't look at her.'
This particular sentence is interesting because the action depicted is a vice versa situation to begin with. So it's a vice versa of a vice versa. Fun.
Vice versa means in reverse order.
Therefore, in your sample sentence it reverses the order to, 'When she looks at me, I don't look at her.'
This particular sentence is interesting because the action depicted is a vice versa situation to begin with. So it's a vice versa of a vice versa. Fun.
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No you haven't quite got it. Vice versa basically means 'and the other way round' not 'and the opposite'.
You can see your sentence doesn't make sense. You are looking at her, she doesn't look at you and you don't look at her. Are you looking at her or not? In your sentence all of these events are happening at the same time...
'I looked at her and vice versa' or 'She didn't lo
You can see your sentence doesn't make sense. You are looking at her, she doesn't look at you and you don't look at her. Are you looking at her or not? In your sentence all of these events are happening at the same time...
'I looked at her and vice versa' or 'She didn't lo
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Maybe you are seeing a subtle shade of meaning I have not seen here, Nona.
To me, the original sentence
"When I look at her, she avoids my gaze, and when she loo
To me, the original sentence
When I look at her, she doesn't look at me and vice versa.seems all right if we take "she doesn't look at me" to mean "she avoids my gaze", because then the sentence as a whole seems to me to say,
"When I look at her, she avoids my gaze, and when she loo
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Nona, if the 'not quite' was directed at me, is this your meaning?
One person looks, the other one doesn't-- looking and not looking are opposites, so, there's is no vice versa in the original event.
But if vice versa is also defined as 'with relations reversed', then the relation between him and her where he is looking at her is reversed in her by her relation to
One person looks, the other one doesn't-- looking and not looking are opposites, so, there's is no vice versa in the original event.
But if vice versa is also defined as 'with relations reversed', then the relation between him and her where he is looking at her is reversed in her by her relation to
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Sorry Davkett, I think we were answering at the same time so my Not Quite was aimed at the OP, not you.
But now I can see your point too Calif Jim. I think the punctuation makes a difference.
When I looked at her, she didn't look at me and vice versa - still makes no sense to me.
But When I looked at her, she didn't look at me, and vice versa, - does.
But now I can see your point too Calif Jim. I think the punctuation makes a difference.
When I looked at her, she didn't look at me and vice versa - still makes no sense to me.
But When I looked at her, she didn't look at me, and vice versa, - does.
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