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#2 (permalink) Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:43 am as in the days |
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Sentence 1 is ambiguous, and could mean 1a or 1b. Sentence 2 is not ambiguous. 2d is what 2 is saying. I suspect 2c is what the author intended. He should have written something more like "These days, young people do not sing, unlike in the good old times. |
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SteveThomas I'm here quite often ;-)
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#3 (permalink) Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:49 pm as in the days |
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Beesneees, 1. These days, young people do not sing, as in the good old days. 2. These days, young people do not sing, unlike in the good old times. Could you please explain the difference in meaning between the two sentences? |
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Allifathima I'm a Communicator ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Sun Apr 07, 2013 13:27 pm as in the days |
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Why not ask SteveThomas, Allifathima? He wrote the second sentence. Personally I would have used '... unlike (they did) in the good old days' or '... unlike (they did) in past times/times past' there. _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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#5 (permalink) Mon Apr 08, 2013 0:52 am as in the days |
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Allifathima wrote: | Beesneees, 1. These days, young people do not sing, as in the good old days. 2. These days, young people do not sing, unlike in the good old times. Could you please explain the difference in meaning between the two sentences? |
"as" means that things are similar "unlike" means things are dissimilar. |
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SteveThomas I'm here quite often ;-)
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face down or his face down or with his face down | back then: back is a verb |