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dogsbody70 (Offline)
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12-22-2010, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by GinaS View Post
By the way, here you should use "then" (in that case) instead of "than" (compares things - this is bigger than that). But this is a very common error among native English speakers, especially around the internet.

dogsbody70 wrote: "I believe that what we call a pavement-- Americans will call it 'sidewalk.'"

This is true. In the US, pavement is the surface material covering the street, the sidewalk runs along the pavement.

I am always making typos.


It would be interesting comparing the differences in describing things.
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