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Autor:  PPAULO
E-mail:  não-disponível
Data:  25/JUN/2009 8:17 PM
Assunto:  "Tourist"
 
Mensagem: 

The height of the silo is 30 feet

   The 30-feet long boat

   The spin-globe measures 30 feet in diameter

   This scale model of the Sears Tower is thirty feet tall

   I have a deeded access easement 30 feet wide that has been encroached upon by the age of  several pecan trees and a water

   This statue is 20-30 feet high and stands in the corner of city park.

 

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    In this line of thinking, a monunemt is not something dangling in the space, this 'meters' there must come with a direction, let´s say, up or down, lenght, width etc.

  Not just 'meters', period.


  Hence, "The monument has thirty-two point five meters."  is to be replaced for something like:

   "The monument is thirty-two point five meters long/tall/wide/high."

 

 

  Hope it helps.     PP.


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 English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
"Tourist"  –  Lúcia Filgueiras  25/JUN/2009, 7:08 PM
"Tourist"  –  Dale-CR  25/JUN/2009, 7:54 PM
"Tourist"  –  Lúcia Filgueiras  25/JUN/2009, 8:03 PM
 "Tourist"  –  PPAULO  25/JUN/2009, 8:17 PM
"Tourist"  –  PPAULO  25/JUN/2009, 8:27 PM
"Tourist"  –  Lúcia Filgueiras  25/JUN/2009, 9:19 PM
"Tourist"  –  Dale-CR  25/JUN/2009, 8:28 PM
"Tourist"  –  Lúcia Filgueiras  25/JUN/2009, 9:20 PM
"Tourist" OLHA!!!  –  Dale-CR  26/JUN/2009, 1:25 AM

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