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puzzle
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 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: across |
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Dear teachers,
Can you tell me the differences between "across" & "across from"? .
Could you please analyse the following sentence for me?
Today we can either fly to Hainan Island or take a ship ___ the sea.
A. across B. across from
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pugachevV
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Across is what you need for your sentence. It expresses movement over a place or region. Across also has the meaning of on or towards the other side of something.
Across from means opposite.
e.g.He lives across (the street) from Walmart. |
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puzzle
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:06 am Post subject: across |
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But the answer is "across from".If we consider "across" as an adverb,and from is a preposition,"across from" is not the set phrase,can we choose "across from"?
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