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Old 24-May-2007, 10:51
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I’d like to know th difference of meaning between these two sentences:

It is the first biographical book dedicated to KK
It is the first biographical book centered on KK

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Default Re: dedicate to/ centre on

Minnie,

dedicated to
-means the author usually names this person/these people in the first fewpages of their work.

I have not encountered centered on before, are you confusing "featuring"?
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no I am not.......I thought it could be possible to say " a book centered on".............I actually mean "it is the first biographical book about KK" (in the sense that in the book, which is the very 1st one ever written, tells about the life of KK"
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I would then write "It is the first biography in print featuring KK"
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I didn't know I could use "featuring" for a book
and I didn't know I couls say "the first biography in print!"

One more thing: is it possible to say "the very first biographical book of KK"?

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