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SAT Writing & Language: Using "Farther" vs. "Further" Correctly 3 Views
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all right shmoopers were on number eight
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of 11 here and the key word here is
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farther and it's really good because our
- 00:10
earlier version of this there was a typo
- 00:12
they forgot the H in there and that [Man pulling weird face as girl smells something]
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- 00:14
meant something completely different so
- 00:16
let's go back through here and look at
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the paragraph it's in....
- 00:29
answer here is definitely not no change
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but it's one of the other three well
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according to this sentence us
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competitiveness will improve by some
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amount right in this case the amount is
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described using metaphorical distance
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when it comes to metaphorical distance
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use further always farther and you can
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think about the implications if there [woman walks away from smell]
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are typos involved for example you'll be
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ten thousand times further ahead after
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hanging around shmoop farther means more
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distant but only literally replacing [hills in the distance]
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farther with from far away or distantly
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also ignores the figurative meaning of
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the sentence so yeah it's see further
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