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Hi Ariadna,
It was news to you that he read Latin because before you didn't know.
If something is news for you the information is addressed to you and no-one else.
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:18 am News to me |
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Hello Torsren, this difference is very important.
My friend sometimes tells me:" You must understand it. This is true" But in one article I saw sentence. *That is true*.
Maybe, he always makes the mistake. What do you think?
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:40 am To / for |
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Hi Ariadna,
Just a quick comment to add something to what Torsten has already written. You could use both forms in the same sentence: It was certainly news to me (the first time I had heard this) that the information was good news for you (intended for you).
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:05 am To / for |
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Frankly speaking, Alan I thought that *to me* and *for me* had the same meaning. Once I noticed that my boss sometimes used *to me* and *for me*. Unfortunately, I had no opportunity to ask him. Now I understand that this difference is substantial.
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2004 13:02 pm To / for |
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Hi everybody again!! Hi Alan and Torsten! I am sorry very much, but I want to ask you about my second guestion. *this is true* and *that is true*, *it is true* - do all these expressiones have the same meaning?
For instance,
Living without water is impossible. It is true( this is true, that is true)
I couldn't find the explanation in my grammatical books.
Thank you for your help in advance
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2004 16:04 pm This is true... |
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Ariadna, what about these sentences:
It is true that living without water is impossible. (grammatically correct although a bit clumpsy)
That much is true: Living without water is impossible.
Living without water is impossible. This is true.
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| #8 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2004 16:29 pm This is true... |
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| Torsten wrote: | Ariadna, what about these sentences:
It is true that living without water is impossible. (grammatically correct although a bit clumpsy)
That much is true: Living without water is impossible.
Living without water is impossible. This is true. |
Dear Torsten, I see that you recommend to use the sentence
*This is true*. (In my case) But I don't understand( unfortunately, indeed)
*That much is true*
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:50 am This much is true... |
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Hi Ariadna,
You can use that much is true or this much is true whenever you want to emphasize that something is a fact. It's just a set phrase.
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| #10 (permalink) Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:55 am This much is true... |
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Hi Torsten, thank you for your help.
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