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Tashiro Posted 16 years ago
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Which is similar?
Hi, teachers. Please help me.
"I didn't understand a single word of what he said."
(1)I didn't understand any words of what he said.
(2)I didn't understand one word of what he said but I understood the others.
Which is similar in meaning of the sentence above, (1) or (2)? or neither?
"I didn't understand a single word of what he said."
(1)I didn't understand any words of what he said.
(2)I didn't understand one word of what he said but I understood the others.
Which is similar in meaning of the sentence above, (1) or (2)? or neither?
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However, it's not meant to be taken literally -- usually!
Yes, it's possible that you simply could not make out what he was saying. A bad transmission, a difficult accent. But what is more likely is that you did understand most if not all of the words, but you couldn't make sense of them.
That happened to me the first day I was on the job at a semiconductor plant. I went to a sp
Yes, it's possible that you simply could not make out what he was saying. A bad transmission, a difficult accent. But what is more likely is that you did understand most if not all of the words, but you couldn't make sense of them.
That happened to me the first day I was on the job at a semiconductor plant. I went to a sp
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Thank you. When the sentence is translated into my native tongue, it is interpreted in the two ways as well.
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