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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
yard
Watching him race around the yard. Could u use other word for yard here?
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Why do you need to? In the US, the yard is that grassy area that surrounds your house. No other word works quite as well.
- Why do you need to?
- In the US, the yard is that grassy area that surrounds your house.
- No other word works quite as well.
- Watching him race around on the grass, I suppose.
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Why do you need to?
In the US, the yard is that grassy area that surrounds your house. No other word works quite as well.
Watching him race around on the grass, I suppose.
In the US, the yard is that grassy area that surrounds your house. No other word works quite as well.
Watching him race around on the grass, I suppose.
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well,its an article about dog-sledding so I can´t use on the grass.maybe just race around would do.anyway thanks a lot
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You could of course say "garden" - since you say this is about dog-sledding, is the dog let loose within an enclosed area for exercise or just let loose?
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Remember that "garden" in the US is where the pretty plants and flowers are.
If you say "the dog ran around the garden" to someone in the US, you'd picture broken plants and destroyed flowers.
If you say "the dog ran around the garden" to someone in the US, you'd picture broken plants and destroyed flowers.
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So it is here too. Dogs can run round in them without acually damaging things.
It would be nice to know what this dog was doing - he might be in an enclosed exercise pen/yard, rather than the ground round a house.
It would be nice to know what this dog was doing - he might be in an enclosed exercise pen/yard, rather than the ground round a house.
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