Nef
Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Posts: 187
Location: California, USA
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 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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1.Are these two(use) right?
a. The black-faced spoonspills can use their bills to catch fish easily.
b. I want to use my eyes to watch black-faced spoonspills.
2. Or have to rewrite like these:
a. The black-faced spoonspills can catch fish easily with their bills.
b. I would like to watch black-faced spoonspills with my own eyes. |
Hello, Dido4
I think either form of "a" ("The black-faced spoonspills...") is fine.
For, "b" I would just say "I want to watch the black-faced spoonspills." It is understood that people who want to watch something want to use their eyes to do so. If you wanted to stress that you were particularly interested in seeing the birds for yourself (maybe because you doubted that there were such birds or you had trouble believing they would do the things you had heard they did), then you could add "with my own eyes." The "with my own eyes" tends to mean that someone wants to verify something, to be sure of it. |
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