Thread: GRAMMAR
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Old 13-Jun-2003, 06:09
lucyarliwu
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There are a couple of ways you can say that.

1) The 102 Train goes from Shanghai to Beijing with a departure time of 9am and an arrival time of 7pm. It's a ten-hour trip.
2) The 102 train leaves Shangai at 9am and arrives in Beijing at 7pm--a journey of ten hours.
3) The 102 train takes ten hours to go from Shangai to Beijing, leaving Shangai at 9am and arriving in Beijing at 7pm.

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Wow! So cool that I got three options for my questions! Thanks Ron! :)
Sometimes it's such a weird thing, the easier of the simple thing you express, the more difficult you can express it well natively,and as a result, I speak out Chinglish (=English in Chinese style ) which is though still undertood by foreigners but really broke the beautiful sense of language, really annoying! :x
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