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 #2 (permalink) Sun May 18, 2008 19:42 pm Expression: "Can you go as far in the ocean..." |
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If it's a general question about the depth of the ocean, it would sound OK to me. If it's asking about a certain person's wilingness to go to the point where her feet don't touch the ground, I'd rather write:
Can you go as far into the ocean until/where your feet don't touch the ground?
But maybe it's all the same. |
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| #3 (permalink) Sun May 18, 2008 22:25 pm Expression: "Can you go as far in the ocean..." |
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Hello Tom,
1. Can you go as far in the ocean that your feet don't touch the ground?
2. Can you go so far into the ocean that your feet don't touch the ground?
To me, as a BrE-speaker, #1 would not sound natural; though it might well seem so to speakers of other kinds of English.
I would use #2 instead.
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| #4 (permalink) Mon May 19, 2008 7:01 am Expression: "Can you go as far in the ocean..." |
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| To me, as a BrE-speaker, #1 would not sound natural; though it might well seem so to speakers of other kinds of English. |
And maybe to some other BrE speakers. |
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| #5 (permalink) Mon May 19, 2008 7:20 am Expression: "Can you go as far in the ocean..." |
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Hi Tom,
Your sentence:
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| Can you go as far in the ocean that your feet don't touch the ground? |
is a bit of a mixed bag. If you start with 'as far ....' this suggests that there should be a further 'as' but the sentence continues with a 'that'. The pattern you really want is to start with a 'so' and then finish with a 'that'. Then you create this sentence: Can you go so far in (into) the ocean that your feet don't touch the ground.
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| #6 (permalink) Mon May 19, 2008 7:44 am Expression: "Can you go as far in the ocean..." |
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| And how about this, Alan? |
Can you go as far into the ocean so your feet don't touch the ground?
Can you go as far into the ocean to (a point) where your feet don't touch the ground?
Can you go as far into the ocean until (a point) where your feet don't touch the ground?
And shouldn't it be "into" with "go", there? |
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