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Onizo Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Walking up
You were walking down the street and meet the road ahead upslope,
Then would you say, "I am walking up the street"?
Then would you say, "I am walking up the street"?
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Although you would not normally use "walk down" about an uphill climb, quite a large part of "down" here is idiomatic rather than literal, so having decided to use it, it feels odd to then change it on the basis of terrain. You could walk down/along the street and then up a/the hill.
- Although you would not normally use "walk down" about an uphill climb, quite a large part of "down" here is idiomatic rather than literal, so having decided to use it, it feels odd to then change it on the basis of terrain.
- You could walk down/along the street and then up a/the hill.
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Although you would not normally use "walk down" about an uphill climb, quite a large part of "down" here is idiomatic rather than literal, so having decided to use it, it feels odd to then change it on the basis of terrain. You could walk down/along the street and then up a/the hill.
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onizowalking down'down' and 'up' aren't often literally changes in elevation when used with 'walk' and/or 'street'.
Sometimes I walk up the street to one of my neighbor's houses. Sometimes I walk down the street to the same house.
The neighbor I visit lives three doors up the street from me. The same neighbor I visit lives three doors down the
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