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stevenukd
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 Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: AIRPORT |
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Dear Teachers,
A: Which aiport did you see your co-workers off at yeasterday?
B: I saw them off at Florida airport.
- Are these ok to say?
Thanks so much!
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cgage2
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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A: Which aiport did you see your co-workers off at yeasterday?
B: I saw them off at Florida airport.
A: Which airport did you see your co-workers off at yesterday?
B: I saw them off at Florida airport.
There is no Florida Airport that I know of. It migh be Miami, or Tampa.
They are usually named after a city or county. Sometimes they are named for a person. JFK. La Guardia etc
You could say that you saw them off at a Florida airport, which means that it was some unspecified airport in the state of Florida. |
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iitimone7
Joined: 09 Aug 2005
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Location: Indiana, USA
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: off at |
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steven - it seems that you mean that you saw your co-workers leave at a particular airport in florida.
to see someone off is slang for saying that you went with your co-workers to the airport in florida and saw them walk out of your range of eyesight. at that point, you assume that they got on the plane and flew away.
-- or you stood at the window, watched them enter the plane, and saw their plane take off.
it really doesn't matter if there is an airport in florida called the florida airport. the focus in your sentence was on the word off, correct? iitimone7 |
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