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Grammar and Linguistics > Is it right?
Is it right?
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Rosa_Rose
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Is it right?
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Hi dears.. I want to present the "Step" as a new voc tomorrow for my pupils by using a picture of a boy walking by counting steps.. So is it right to ask: How do we walk by? by steps or by kilometres? I mean is it" walk by or walk in steps"? |
31 Jan 2018
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redcamarocruiser
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The question should be, "How do we walk?" The answer would be, "We take steps", but if the only choices are walk in steps or walk by steps, then I would choose walk in steps. It sounds odd to me, though.
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Yes Douglas is right, of course when we add in the words kilometer or steps, the preposition �in�is correct.
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31 Jan 2018
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douglas
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I would say: "How do we walk? In steps or in kilometers?" |
1 Feb 2018
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FrauSue
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I would avoid walk in/by steps as, like redcamarocruiser says, it doesn �t sound very natural. Here are some ideas? - We walk step by step. - We step. / We step forwards. - We take steps. For your introductory question, you could ask: Is each step we take about a metre or about a kilometre? One step is much shorter than a kilometre. |
1 Feb 2018
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yanogator
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I might say, "How do we measure walking?" and we definitely walk in steps. Bruce |
1 Feb 2018
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redcamarocruiser
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I thought of the same sentence as Bruce, but if the class is low level, then the fewer words, the better. like Douglas suggested. |
1 Feb 2018
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cunliffe
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I agree that �we walk in steps � doesn �t sound natural. �We take steps � would be the best phrase to use with your pupils. �To be in step � means to keep pace with others, left legs forward at the same time etc, and it also means to agree with them. |
1 Feb 2018
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