Showing posts with label farther. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farther. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

10 times further

FOUND ONLINE: So, each day, they still swim over 10 times further than the swimming component of an Iron Man Triathlon (3.86 kilometres).

Distance is farther, so this should be 10 times farther. Or is it 10 times as far?

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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

A big step farther

FOUND ONLINE: But his backing of Clinton goes a big step farther than other GOP Trump skeptics in Congress.

Goes a big step farther sounds correct, since farther is about distance. But we're not talking distance here; it's not about about walking a step.


So further works here.


But his backing of Clinton goes much further than other GOP Trump skeptics in Congress.


ALSO FOUND ONLINE: Doyle sites the late Whitney Houston's widely mocked "crack is whack" interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002 as an early example.


I think the writer meant cites, not sites. At least he/she didn't use sights.

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