2014年6月30日 星期一

They climbed up the mountain. vs They climbed the mountain.

There is often a subtle difference in meaning between locative prepositional phrases and simple NPs, which have a locative meaning.

eg. They climbed up the mountain. vs They climbed the mountain.

The second sentence communicates the notion that this path has been completely traversed, while the first sentence contains an adverb of direction, which describes some sort of path.


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