keep me further away from it

[Maybo]

Mary: I don't like car race movies.
John: But if a movie have good scripts and actors, you will love it.
Mary: Not always true. If I'm afraid of ghosts, a good ghost movie will only keep me further away from it.

Is it correct to use "keep me further away from it"?

 

[Tarheel]

Mary: I don't like car race movies.
John: But if a movie has good scripts and actors, you will love it.
Mary: Not always true. If I'm afraid of ghosts, a good ghost movie will only keep me further away from it.

Is it correct to use "keep me further away from it"?

It doesn't work for me. I would just say I don't like ghost movies no matter how good they are.

 

[teechar]

I agree with Tarheel. Your sentence doesn't make sense and is unnatural.

 

[Maybo]

I agree with Tarheel. Your sentence doesn't make sense and is unnatural.

I'm thinking that better ghost movies mean scarier movies so good ghost movies would just make people who' s afraid of ghost don't even want to watch more.

 

[teechar]

Try something like:

Mary: [STRIKE]Not always true.[/STRIKE] I doubt that. For example, if I'm afraid of ghosts, then a "good" ghost movie will only make me more scared of them. [STRIKE]keep me further away from it.[/STRIKE]

 

[GoesStation]

I'm thinking that "better ghost movies" means "scarier movies", so good ghost movies would just make people who [STRIKE]' s[/STRIKE] are afraid of ghosts not [STRIKE]don't even[/STRIKE] want to watch more.

See above.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

. . . Is it correct to use "keep me further away from it"?

I'd say farther. Further refers to degree. Farther refers to distance.

However, it's a distinction that not everyone observes—like the difference between fewer and less or graveyard and cemetery.

 

[teechar]

Further refers to degree.

It can refer to distance as well, at least in non-American varieties of English.

Farther refers to distance.

For whatever reason, that is falling out of favour and being replaced by "further".

However, it's a distinction that not everyone observes—like the difference between fewer and less or graveyard and cemetery.

I definitely make a distinction between those.

 

[GoesStation]

It can refer to distance as well, at least in non-American varieties of English.

This American would say further.

 

[Tarheel]

Mary: I don't like car race movies.
John: But if a movie has good scripts and actors, you will love it.
Mary: Not always true. If I'm afraid of ghosts, a good ghost movie will make me want to watch even less.

Try that!