ELL's Cabin

Damkerng T.

07:36

Hi @Jim!

0

A: What is different of a complement and a relative

Along the same lines of Sander's answer, but a bit more concise: I felt the floor shaking. = I felt that the floor was shaking. I felt the floor which is was shaking. = I felt the floor. The floor was shaking. He may not kiss her in front of us watching. = He may not kiss her in ...

Damkerng T.

08:02

A grammar book must have a better explanation than that.

(That why the normal reading of I felt the floor shaking is not "I felt the floor that was shaking".)

Probably related to I like my coffee hot (please), which is not "I like my coffee which is hot".

Damkerng T.

08:36

@BenKovitz I haven't read the whole answer but I figure that it's along the lines of using common sense (guessing by analogy, with some knowledge related to etymology for more sophisticated speakers). Having said that, I think the question overlooks one crucial thing: How often do native speakers discover a new word by reading? (especially, a not-so-rare word) And, when that happens, how long will native speakers have to assume guessing the pronunciation before they will a) hear the word pronounced by their peers or the media, b) look it up in a dictionary, or c) ask someone who knows? — Damkerng T. 2 mins ago

I think that's very important point.

If a learner does the same thing, he or she will not get the same problem the OP mentioned.

I think such a learner will be or almost will be on a par with the average native speaker. Not that they will guess every unheard word right, but they will have about the same clues.

No etymological clues are absolutely needed, imho. Though such clues could be helpful.

Damkerng T.

10:51

0

Q: skills and knowledge available to MBA graduates

The field of business requires multifaceted practices for real-world problems as much as or more than any other field. A business school expects that application skills and knowledge available to MBA graduates will be comparable to the skills and knowledge possessed by business professionals. Cre...

vocabulary

Ahh... It's bad writing.

What would "application skills and knowledge available to MBA graduates" mean?

M.A.Ramezani

MAR comes to rescue @Dam from talking to himself.

Hullo!

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Welcome to my mindscape.

Hello!

Freddy

hola

Damkerng T.

Hallo!

M.A.Ramezani

Hullo @Fred!

Kay, choose a topic... I wanna nag so badly!

Damkerng T.

10:54

Well, what do you think about that sentence?

> A business school expects that application skills and knowledge available to MBA graduates will be comparable to the skills and knowledge possessed by business professionals.

M.A.Ramezani

Will makes my butt scratch. It shouldn't be there.

Damkerng T.

What do you think about available to?

> X and Y available to group A are comparable to X and Y possessed by group B.

That would be the essence of the sentence.

M.A.Ramezani

That's cool to my eyes.

Damkerng T.

Well, what do you think they mean by that available to?

Is it the same as possessed by?

M.A.Ramezani

Not likely.

It's like they have the ability to obtain that knowledge.

Damkerng T.

10:58

Yeah. But I'm sure that they used it to mean the same thing.

For one thing "application skills available to MBA graduates" doesn't really make sense.

M.A.Ramezani

It's not a well-designed sentence, I agree.

Damkerng T.

Also their word choice application skills is not ideal, imho.

M.A.Ramezani

BTW is it well designed or well-designed?

I think the former.

Damkerng T.

How is it used?

As an adjective?

M.A.Ramezani

Yep. My sentence above.

1 min ago, by M.A.Ramezani

It's not a well-designed sentence, I agree.

Damkerng T.

11:03

Oh, yes. Sorry, I missed that.

well-designed is good (and better).

I'd probably use well-written instead.

Or maybe, well-thought-out.

M.A.Ramezani

Nah, it's all about design.

Damkerng T.

That's so bold!

BTW, it's raining again over here.

Ah, hello! @Man_From_India

M.A.Ramezani

Oh, just realized well-designed rhymes with well-defined.

Hullo @Man!

Man_From_India

hi @DamkerngT. and @M.A.Ramezani

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. It's been some time since the last day it rained here.

Damkerng T.

11:08

@M.A.Ramezani But lots of snow?

Freddy

@man Hola

Man_From_India

that MBA question is really bad...bad title and no formatting :(

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. A lot of snow in June?

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Not only that. I think the quoted text itself is bad too.

M.A.Ramezani

C'mon. Even north pole isn't that cool.

Damkerng T.

11:09

@M.A.Ramezani I don't know how the weather over there is like!

M.A.Ramezani

Well, it's sometimes tolerable.

It's usually annoying.

Damkerng T.

Aww

M.A.Ramezani

It's always inconsistent.

Damkerng T.

Hey, that sounds a bit like England!

Man_From_India

i don't know why he don't format questions :( he is not a new member. i commented there, reminding him about all these. But I wrote a bit like a mod, so deleted it :P

M.A.Ramezani

11:10

@DamkerngT. Yeah, kinda like that.

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India I think it's a fine comment. :-)

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. yes...that's true...i first opened that question thinking it deals with some MBA knowledge and something :)

M.A.Ramezani

@Man_From_India Give him a break. The copy-paste is notorious in Iran for being too hard.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani An Englishman would carry an umbrella with him (or so they say). What do you prepare for your weather?

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. How about nothing?

Damkerng T.

11:11

@M.A.Ramezani LOL

@M.A.Ramezani Oh!

M.A.Ramezani

We always worry about the weather when go to a picnic.

Damkerng T.

Picnic sounds nice!

M.A.Ramezani

But then, there are always tents to set up.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. I even included this - "It is better if no one comes forward to give any solutions to ur question unless you edit ur question". then thought i might have gone a bit out of the way, and so deleted it :P

M.A.Ramezani

And laughs and cries while getting drenched and setting up the tent at the same time.

Damkerng T.

11:14

@Man_From_India I think you're not the first who said that. :-)

M.A.Ramezani

@Man_From_India Heh. You should've just edited!

To give him a chance to roll back and prove he doesn't care.

Man_From_India

@M.A.Ramezani why? :O

Damkerng T.

Iirc, J.R. said that too.

Man_From_India

hmm lot of his questions are unanswered :(

M.A.Ramezani

Too bad a mod can't give a warning about this.

Man_From_India

11:15

one reason i believe is bad formatting or no formatting

M.A.Ramezani

Tipp topp tipp topp

Man_From_India

and another he doesn't reply much :(

Damkerng T.

I sometimes wonder if he gets our answers.

(I assume that he reads them.)

M.A.Ramezani

That's my heart beating - Da election begins tomorrow!

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Have you already cast your votes?

Man_From_India

11:17

i am sure he doesn't...

M.A.Ramezani

No, we're still in the nomination phase.

Man_From_India

in another forum whenever he is provided with answers he goes back to his professors to verify. then what is the point of asking such questions here if he already has a professional support :D

Damkerng T.

Oh!

Like cross-checking, perhaps.

Man_From_India

that is what he says there :)

M.A.Ramezani

@Man_From_India Well, most university students in Iran are, ya know...

How can I put it?

Aha. It's like they only care about the major they study. (Some even don't)

Man_From_India

11:19

@M.A.Ramezani i don't believe it...u r also from there, but not like that :)

Damkerng T.

+1!

Man_From_India

:D

M.A.Ramezani

If he's gonna become a civil engineer, he mostly has a feeling of screw English.

@Man_From_India I'm not a human.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Eh? I thought he was one already.

Man_From_India

@M.A.Ramezani oh i thought he already is an engineer.

Damkerng T.

11:21

Turning a linguist, it seems.

M.A.Ramezani

Well if he's studying, he isn't yet.

People in Iran, don't value science and knowledge that much.

Unless they're a chair cyclohexane.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani That's sad.

Man_From_India

indeed sad! :(

M.A.Ramezani

It's like what's happening in the US, I think, judging from what I see in the Net.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Say, if I said, "What a shame!" instead, would you misunderstand my saying?

M.A.Ramezani

11:24

It is a shameful moment for our education system.

Not that the dolts would care.

Damkerng T.

Ahh... I didn't mean that. Good thing that I changed it to sad.

M.A.Ramezani

Bottom line is, I HATE our ministry of education. :(

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. i don't think so...considering what sort of questions he has been asking for a long time :) moreover if u look into his profile, you will find he is interested to talk to people from US :) (similar, can't remember exactly)

Damkerng T.

looking up the profile...

Man_From_India

[too much reading of sharlock holmes stories] haha

Damkerng T.

11:26

Hmm... it doesn't say much

@Man_From_India lol

M.A.Ramezani

@Man_From_India Haha, Who's Sharlock?

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani I guess it's just a typo.

(My lol wasn't for that.)

(Why do I have to explain that?!)

M.A.Ramezani

No I'm really interested.

:}

3

Q: Is "fugazi" an English word?

The British rock band Marillion has a song called Fugazi, which is also the title of the album. This is one of their lines: Do you realise, this world is totally fugazi. By context I can deduce that the word means insane. There is also an American punk band called Fugazi. Well, the word h...

idioms translation songs

Man_From_India

:D

M.A.Ramezani

Is that like fliveck?

Damkerng T.

11:28

LOL

Man_From_India

see u guys...off to evening walk...it's Sunday :D

Damkerng T.

Have a nice walk!

M.A.Ramezani

Cya @Man!

Damkerng T.

Oh, fougasse is plausible!

M.A.Ramezani

0

Q: using "and" to relate sentences

It seems I have problem in using "and" and I don't know its proper usage and sometimes my sentences get too long with many "and" between. (however here I used it deliberately) for example I want to say: We avoid using absolute paths and relay more on the relative paths and the node attribute...

sentence-construction phrase-request

Tonight, I'm gonna have an and nightmare.

The whole world is and!

Damkerng T.

11:33

> We avoid using absolute paths and relay more on the relative paths and the node attributes to locate an anchor node.

Hmm...

Oh, it should be rely!

M.A.Ramezani

Hush. The OP is relaying.

Damkerng T.

Too late! Comment posted.

M.A.Ramezani

Well, the OP was playing basketball.

Now you give 'em a notification, and they stop relaying.

Damkerng T.

> A context can starts from an anchor node and expand to its descendants or its following nodes or it can include the parent and ancestors of a node.

One comma can cure them all!

> A context can starts from an anchor node and expand to its descendants or its following nodes, or it can include the parent and ancestors of a node.

(Typos aside)

Wow, nima posted quite a lot of questions!

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. IMO, you should use and only when one idea is following another.

Damkerng T.

11:38

(still looking for his studying he mentioned a while back.)

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. How many? Let me guess, 700?

No no, 800?

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Good point. But there are many ways to fix that. I'm sure some other users can elaborate that better than me.

@M.A.Ramezani Less than 500, though.

M.A.Ramezani

Still not beating Listenever.

Damkerng T.

:D

M.A.Ramezani

Not that their level matches though.

Damkerng T.

11:40

Found it!

0

Q: having a strong desire to do something, as you have not done it for a long time

When it comes to expressing the fact that, for instance, you have a very strong desire to do something what would you say? For instance, it's a long you have not reading a book: I crave/ long for reading a book having a yen for Any comment would be greatly appreciated. As a footnote, thank...

meaning vocabulary

> [He] has graduated in civil engineering and is studying semiotics and linguistics.

M.A.Ramezani

Nima isn't a girl name.

Damkerng T.

Yep. I thought Nima was a girl name for almost a year.

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. It sound like a will to me. Hah!

@DamkerngT. That's better than thinking Colleen is a boy's name.

Damkerng T.

:D

@M.A.Ramezani My first word choice would be yearning.

Man_From_India

13:58

@DamkerngT. Now Nima stirred some interest in me :O why the hell such change? I should not poke into anybody's life but Sherlock Holmes taught me to suspect every single individual. Is there any mysterious case in his life? ;)

hi @Freddy

Finally relief from heat wave :-)

How r u doing?

Freddy

hola

yes

I am doing great

Just about to attempt python quiz

what about you?

Man_From_India

@Freddy That sounds great :-)

It's Sunday, so I am home...relaxing :-)

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India I have no idea, but I've seen an engineer turned doctor, a doctor turned engineer, and all that before.

@Freddy Ah, a Pythonian is working on his quizzes diligently. :-)

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. For my case an engineer turned a singer for some time, then turned a writer for some time :-) and lastly a pencil sketch artist for some time ....An engineer me - jack of all trade and master of none :D

Damkerng T.

:D

Freddy

14:02

@Man_From_India Lucky you. I just completed my physics homework(BTW physics is fun)

Engineer normally choose "Stand up comedian"

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. You know who is responsible...Stomach...and that wants money :-( no time for heart :-(

Damkerng T.

True, that!

Man_From_India

@Freddy I was doing literally similar thing when I just joined office fresh from college :D

Freddy

LOL

Damkerng T.

I wonder if the humanity will ever achieve the day when money is meaningless like in those sci-fi movies (Star Trek in mind).

Man_From_India

14:05

A total and drastic change...really hard to cope up with....especially when you find the knowledge you gain in college is almost nothing compared to what sort of skill you need to survive in industry...

Freddy

maybe after infinte years @dam

Damkerng T.

@Freddy nods -- That's a bit sad.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. It will never be like that...the poor will want the comfort of a palace, and the king will be afraid to loose his respect...he will sure put pressure to keep the poor where they are now...so the power and money will never be invalid...the one to blame is our own intelligence :-(

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India One thing useful I learned in my university days: working life is tough. :P

I mean, our teachers gave us more assignments than they really taught us the stuff in our courses.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. That is more or less the case everywhere...

Freddy

14:08

nods

Man_From_India

There are some exceptions though.

Freddy

@dam Have you tried adding movie stories or songs in between assignments?

Man_From_India

like?

oh u mean while writing assignments you actually write movie stories and song lyrics :O strange :D

Damkerng T.

I don't even know what that means! (Sorry, @Freddy!)

My assignments were about coding, coding, and more coding. :-)

Freddy

No, I have heard that in between boring assignments many students write all those stuff.

Damkerng T.

14:13

Well, sometimes we did report, too.

@Freddy Ahh... I remember that we were overloaded by all those assignments, enough that we almost thought we had no life. :-)

So the best we could do back then was having some loud music while we coded in our mini-computer room in our campus.

Man_From_India

14:36

@DamkerngT. after a long time i see u post an answer..and that is a good one :)

Damkerng T.

Thanks!

Man_From_India

15:45

@DamkerngT. Is this sentence correct - "No hill station is as beautiful as Darjeeling"?

One said the only way to correct this sentence is - "No other hill station is as beautiful as Darjeeling".

Damkerng T.

In my opinion, both are fine.

Those who don't accept #1 probably are robots.

Man_From_India

That is what I thought...but some books say that the second sentence is only correct, not the first one...one student just mentioned me :-( I think that book again said something wrong, but he mentioned in many books it is wrtten.

@DamkerngT. haha...so finally it is proved...Dam is no longer a robot :D

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India That makes me think of that FLAWLESS book.

@Man_From_India Hehe!

Man_From_India

Not that book...but may be some other books...he said a lot of books says something...strange!

Damkerng T.

I think it's like many prescriptive rules that actually can be relaxed in the real world.

Man_From_India

15:50

true

Damkerng T.

> No one thinks like me.

2

Is that a good sentence?

Do we have to say 'No other thinks like me' instead?

Man_From_India

Perfect

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Yeah, there's no one that thinks like me.

Damkerng T.

(It's a casual sentence, anyway.)

nods

M.A.Ramezani

in The Periodic Table, 4 mins ago, by M.A.Ramezani

BEHOLD the most ice-creamophilic chemical species known to scientists.

Damkerng T.

15:53

(My iPad is really slow. I wonder why.)

M.A.Ramezani

Did you ever hate your iPad?

Did your iPad ever hate you?

Damkerng T.

No. Though sometimes I wish to see it work nicer.

Man_From_India

Hi @StoneyB

M.A.Ramezani

Hullo @stoney!

Damkerng T.

Could be my router.

Hello, @StoneyB!

StoneyB

15:55

Hi, guys.

Hot news: LawProposal &c has reverted to his original handle!

Damkerng T.

@StoneyB I upvoted a few answers of yours today.

Oh!

M.A.Ramezani

Wut?

Man_From_India

I was just looking for you for this answer...do you think it is okay? If you have time please read it, and let me know if it is correct. @StoneyB

0

A: Discerning arguments of verbs, predicates?

In traditional grammar a sentence comprises of a subject and a predicate. The lake froze solid. [Subject => The lake Predicate => froze solid] I am no one special. [Subject => I Predicate => am no one special] The sky is blue. [Subject => The sky Predicate => is blue] In the sent...

StoneyB

(Perhaps this signals an abandonment of etymological inquiries?)

M.A.Ramezani

@StoneyB He's still yelling merry X-mas!

Man_From_India

15:57

:D

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Ah, that answer actually looks good, but I'm not sure about argument stuff, so...

M.A.Ramezani

In the middle of June.... Makes me wonder.

Damkerng T.

@StoneyB What's his original name?

StoneyB

LePressentiment

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Original name.

Damkerng T.

15:58

Thanks!

M.A.Ramezani

Anytime!

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani I meant that for StoneyB!

Man_From_India

All you have to do to find out his name is to go visit unanswered questions :D

Damkerng T.

True!

About half of them are his, I think.

Man_From_India

yes...

M.A.Ramezani

16:00

@DamkerngT. Who's counting?

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Anyway, the avatar still X'Mas though.

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Yeah. In the middle of June.

user116848

hi all

Damkerng T.

Maybe, the Law Area 51 proposal has succeeded.

M.A.Ramezani

@Arrowfar Hullo!

user116848

16:01

Hello @M.A.Ramezani! :)

StoneyB

@Man_From_India Mostly very good. But 'predicate', at least in CGEL, has pretty much the same meaning as it used to (basically everything except the subject); the verb is there called the Predicator.

user116848

@Man_From_India @StoneyB Hi!

Man_From_India

Hi arrow

StoneyB

Yo, Arrowfar!

user116848

Yo!

user116848

16:03

:-)

Damkerng T.

Hmm... how can I search for a proposal on Area 51?

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. First, go to Area51.

Man_From_India

@StoneyB Yes predicate is really confusing..wikipedia said now it is verb that is called predicate. But I remember when I was reading the argument structure thing in theta theory, I saw they even called adjective predicate...

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani That's really.... helpful?

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. You're welcome. Then the search bar is right on top.

Kinda orangy orange.

Damkerng T.

16:06

A-ha! It's in beta now!

18

Law – law.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for legal professionals, students and others with experience or interest in law

Currently in public beta.

StoneyB

@DamkerngT. Good call; in fact, it's been in Beta for 18 days.

M.A.Ramezani

Law must be freaking out now.

StoneyB

I'm sorta sorry in a way; the law questions he asked were often pretty interesting.

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Also, I noticed that Law has 286 rep there.

@StoneyB Well, unfortunately, they were too good to be in ELL; I mean, many people here don't reach a level where they worry about differentiating between meaning and semantics.

Not everyone is you @Stoney!

Damkerng T.

@StoneyB The Law stack could help him too, I think, now.

Thinking about those reasoning, argument, and interpretation questions of his...

StoneyB

16:10

And the meaning/semantics question was not at all interesting to me. No, I had in mind some of his questions about v e r y subtle sentences from historical legal judgments.

Damkerng T.

@StoneyB I took a dab into some legal texts because of his questions. :-)

StoneyB

But I suspect he's going to have a very hard time in law school.

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Ah my head!

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Oh, you sure will have to write that kind of stuff too, when your time comes.

@StoneyB I don't know if a law school is really his goal.

M.A.Ramezani

@StoneyB Or rather, his teachers are.

Damkerng T.

16:14

@M.A.Ramezani We are witnessing the dawn of the stack of law!

M.A.Ramezani

Hides

Damkerng T.

From Kuba?

M.A.Ramezani

No Law student shall kill the other.

Damkerng T.

LOL

(I watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes yesterday, BTW)

StoneyB

@DamkerngT. I think I remember that in a very early question he mentioned that he was studying for a law school entrance exam - I think one for UK law schools.

Damkerng T.

16:17

Ahhh... I must've missed that one.

M.A.Ramezani

@StoneyB Ow!

Damkerng T.

Oh, I see now. I read it wrong. — Cookie Monster 12 mins ago

Yay! (for the seeing)

M.A.Ramezani

in The Periodic Table, 12 mins ago, by M.A.Ramezani

The bravest man is he who accepts his mistake.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Have you ever heard that the brave ones die first? :P

M.A.Ramezani

Yep.

StoneyB

16:25

@DamkerngT. Only the young die young. The old have missed their opportunity.

Damkerng T.

That's true too!

M.A.Ramezani

Only the dong lie young.

OK this is a side-effect of ice creams.

Damkerng T.

o_O

StoneyB

That's some potent ice cream you got there, dude.

M.A.Ramezani

Or ice creams. Just had 7 of them.

Man, I love today.

Damkerng T.

16:27

7!

M.A.Ramezani

22 hours ago, by M.A.Ramezani

Only 4!

StoneyB

@Man_From_India I see you're right about Wikipedia. Hmm ... I've never encountered that. But I'm not very widely read in grammar. I withdraw my objection.

M.A.Ramezani

That was a sad day. @M.A.

Man_From_India

@StoneyB Oh thanks :-) So I should keep it :-)

StoneyB

Ayup. And I'm gonna go upvote it.

Man_From_India

16:30

Icing on the cake :-)

Damkerng T.

Beneath (2013) -- The first movie I can't watch to the end of it this year.

@Man_From_India I will keep it on my tab until I finish reading more about this argument thingy. :-)

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. :-)

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Which argument? Are we doing math?

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Ah, it's something like this: He plays tennis --> play(he, tennis)

M.A.Ramezani

Hmm... Give me something to read!

Damkerng T.

16:42

he and tennis are arguments of the predicate play

Man_From_India

right...argument structure...they even assign names to these arguments...

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Oh!

@M.A.Ramezani It's in Man_From_India's answer.

Man_From_India

yes..like AGENT, THEME etc...

Damkerng T.

> ell.stackexchange.com/a/59103/3281

Man_From_India

it's explained in theta theory

M.A.Ramezani

16:44

I suddenly felt too lazy.

Damkerng T.

:D

unlazy(MAR)

M.A.Ramezani

Fat chance!

Damkerng T.

:D

M.A.Ramezani

You really need to do better than that.

Damkerng T.

Ahh... my resources are exhausted at the moment.

M.A.Ramezani

16:46

Wut

Sorry guys, I'm cleaning the keyboard!

StoneyB

delazify(MAR)?

M.A.Ramezani

Not good enough.

Man_From_India

scold_kid(MAR)

M.A.Ramezani

Keep trying.

Damkerng T.

MAR (in the Terminator's voice): Unwilling to comply.

Man_From_India

16:48

haha

StoneyB

impigrify(MAR)

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Hasta la vista, baby!

@StoneyB Let me think about it...

Man_From_India

Now this is good question -

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Q: how to use the phrase "his study"

Original: It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he ... Could you possibly show me which one is correct grammatically? and is there any difference between them semantically? A. The old banker was walking up and do...

prepositions adverbs

Damkerng T.

I think only A and C sound okay.

Man_From_India

Yes now the question comes of in vs at :D

M.A.Ramezani

16:54

Let me read it more carefully.

I was expecting a long copy-paste.

Man_From_India

In A and B, up and down are particle and part of a phrasal verb. Right?

@M.A.Ramezani No this is actually a good question.

M.A.Ramezani

What's the sentence supposed to mean?

Damkerng T.

His study is a room.

M.A.Ramezani

> The old banker was walking up and down his study

Man_From_India

breath...in...breath out while walking :D

M.A.Ramezani

16:56

It's easier this way:

StoneyB

It is a good question.

Damkerng T.

Iirc, up and down of a room is similar to north and south.

(not literally, though)

M.A.Ramezani

> He walks down the sidewalk.
He walks down at the sidewalk
He walks down in the sidewalk.

Damkerng T.

nods

M.A.Ramezani

I'm preferring A.

@DamkerngT. Or anything that might resemble such south and north.

What about you guys? Which one do you prefer?

Or rather, which is correct?

Damkerng T.

16:58

nods -- Some direction or structure of the room that makes it possible to think of up and down, maybe.

M.A.Ramezani

Oh wait... I mean I prefer C.

And the first one in my examples.

No preps.

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