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Old 05-Jan-2006, 18:06
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Default work one´way through

Please clarify:

"You have patiently WORKED OUT YOUR WAY through these pages..."

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Old 05-Jan-2006, 19:13
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Default Re: work one´way through

patiently worked out your way through these pages c

consider that these pages contain difficult excercises, then this sentence means that you took your time and stayed calm to figger out what the right solution was. You managed to come up with the solution(s) although that the excercises were difficult by staying calm and focused

patience litteraly means -> good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

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Old 06-Jan-2006, 04:14
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Default Re: work one´way through

If you have worked your way through, then you have started at the neginning and gone to the end, as Johan says. If you have worked out your way through, you have esigned a route through the work, which is slightly different and sounds a rather unusual sentence.
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