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help with adjectives
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spied-d-aignel
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help with adjectives
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Hi to you all,, sorry for my stupid question but I am preparing something on comparatives and I wanted to know if is better to use the adjective TALL or HIGH when we speak about BUILDINGS or are both possible?Thanks for your enlightened answers and good week! Sylvie!:)) |
23 Mar 2015
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yanogator
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Tall is definitely better. Bruce |
23 Mar 2015
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korova-daisy
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As far as I know," tall" is used to describe living things (people, animals, plants), in describing inanimate things you should use "high".
Things which can be high: fences, walls, mountains, hills, ceilings, clouds.
Things which can be tall: people, trees, animals, buildings, ladders .
We also say something is high when it is out of our reach or far above the ground:
a high shelf, a high window.
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23 Mar 2015
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redcamarocruiser
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I agree with Bruce. A famous example is the announcer�s sentence in the television series, Superman: "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"
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23 Mar 2015
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martinasvabova
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The building is tall. It is 30 metres high.Is it correct ?
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23 Mar 2015
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