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BoSsSy Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

What exactly is going on with the grammar of this sentence?

I've seen this kind of a sentence. It's not exactly the same sentence but the idea is the same:

Speed up past the car's max speed

what does "past" do in this sentence? Also why car is used with apostrophe + s? Is it because we are talking a specific car?

  

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BoSsSy Speed up past the car's max speed That really makes no sense. If the highest possible (max) speed of a car is 200 km/hour, it is not rational to say that you are going faster than that in the same car. Here is a good sentence: Speed up past the speed limit and the police will give you a citation.

  • BoSsSy Speed up past the car's max speed That really makes no sense.
  • If the highest possible (max) speed of a car is 200 km/hour, it is not rational to say that you are going faster than that in the same car.
  • Here is a good sentence: Speed up past the speed limit and the police will give you a citation.
  • Past == beyond, over, higher than
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BoSsSySpeed up past the car's max speed

That really makes no sense. If the highest possible (max) speed of a car is 200 km/hour, it is not rational to say that you are going faster than that in the same car.

Here is a good sentence:

Speed up past the speed limit and the police will give you a citation.


Past == beyond, over, higher tha

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