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Hi. How should I write this?
I threw a chair against/into/through the window which broke/shattered. Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole in the window.
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If the first chair made a hole in the window, then it most likely went through the window, so in effect, you threw two chairs through the window. You can say that like this: I threw a chair through the window. Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole made by the first chair.
- If the first chair made a hole in the window, then it most likely went through the window, so in effect, you threw two chairs through the window.
- You can say that like this: I threw a chair through the window.
- Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole made by the first chair.
- You can't say the window which broke or the window which shattered .
- That implies that the window had already broken (or shattered) before you threw the first chair.
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If the first chair made a hole in the window, then it most likely went through the window, so in effect, you threw two chairs through the window.
You can say that like this:
I threw a chair through the window. Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole made by the first chair.
You can't say the window which broke or the window which
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