 #2 (permalink) Tue Mar 22, 2011 15:21 pm Re: the window looked out onto the terrace |
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| Szky09 wrote: | "the window looked out onto the terrace"
is it a way of humanization?
can we say: "from the window, he looked out onto the terrace"? |
The idea in the first sentence is that you had a view onto the terrace from the window. The window isn't actually looking out itself! The second sentence is fine also.
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