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Subject: Предлог at or for??? gen. I'm looking (at or for) my grandchildren next week.Спасибо. |
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link 25.02.2017 12:48 |
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)))) прикольный вопрос 5+7 будет Одиннадцать или Адиннадцать? |
| может она просто захочет бегло взглянуть на внучат, тогда at, только грамматику следует поменять. |
| И ОБЫЧНО ВОТЧАЮТ, А НЕ ЛУКАЮТ |
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link 25.02.2017 15:51 |
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'looking for' = 'searching for'. Have you lost them?!? 'looking after' = 'caring for'. If you mean 'visiting them/spending some time with them', just say 'seeing them', not 'looking at them'. |
| It is an exercise in an Oxford book. Thanks for comment. |
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Да ну? Прям в оксфордском учебнике так и написано? I'm looking (at or for) my grandchildren next week. Оксфорд уже не тот... |
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link 25.02.2017 18:45 |
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Susan +1 Oxford United football club? If not, Oxford University Press's standards have certainly dropped! |
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Why? Is it possible, they have one correct answer to the question and three incorrect, and asker just picked the wrong one? |
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link 25.02.2017 19:56 |
| It could be that there were other предлоги available (such as 'after') which the asker has failed to show us. Only the asker knows the answer to that, though. |
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grammatically speaking, either of the two is possible. whether it has to make sense is another issue altogether. it's not entirely impossible that there may be a situation (in a movie, for instance) when someone "is looking at his/her cat next week'. |
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link 25.02.2017 21:24 |
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Of course, grammatically speaking you can put almost any preposition there -- 'I'm looking (under/through/inside/from/above/outside) my grandchildren next week', just as you can say 'there's an elephant in my coffee' -- but you'd almost never say any of them, as they don't make sense. 'after' makes perfect sense, though. 'looking for' could make sense -- but only if (for some reason) you know you're going to be searching for them, and 'looking at' could -- but only if you're going to be considering/investigating/inspecting them for some reason, or looking at pictures/paintings of them. These two are both very unlikely, though. |
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небольшое расследование выдало 2документа: раздел 3 -стр 38 VOCABULARY и во втором ответ after и at нет вообще from |
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link 25.02.2017 22:35 |
| Bingo! -- "Well done, Holmes!" So the original's been copied and distorted at some point, with someone inserting "(at or for)" where the blank space should be. |
| deep down, i knew it -:)) |
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link 25.02.2017 22:49 |
| You were just causing trouble! |
| yeah, but just a little. |
| в итоге побеждает Syrira с ответом "after" в 25.02.2017 13:54 |
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link 25.02.2017 23:52 |
| Definitely. |
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