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The woman in the picture is standing in a vividly red room and is placing fruit in a bowl. She seems to be carrying on her work in silence. As you watch the woman working dutifully at her task in this red room, your anger melts away instead of getting worse.
In the sentence above, can I use 'carrying on with work' instead of 'carrying on her work'? Are the two words the same?
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"Carrying on her work in silence" means she is silently completing her work. "Carrying on with work in silence" to me implies that despite some outside distraction or preoccupation, she completes her work in silence. The first sentence also needs some adjustment— The woman stands in a room painted vivid red and places fruit in a bowl.
- "Carrying on her work in silence" means she is silently completing her work.
- "Carrying on with work in silence" to me implies that despite some outside distraction or preoccupation, she completes her work in silence.
- The first sentence also needs some adjustment— The woman stands in a room painted vivid red and places fruit in a bowl.
- In regard to the vividly red room, this is an amusing hot take from "Elements of Eloquence" by Mark Forsyth: Hyperbaton is when you put words in an odd order, which is very, very difficult to do in English.
- Given that almost everything else in the English language is slapdash, happy-go-lucky, care-may-the-Devil, word order is surprisingly strict.
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"Carrying on her work in silence" means she is silently completing her work.
"Carrying on with work in silence" to me implies that despite some outside distraction or preoccupation, she completes her work in silence.
The first sentence also needs some adjustment—
The woman stands in a room painted vivid red and places fruit in a bowl.
In regard to the vividly
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