stretch/extend

[moonlike]

Hi
Can we use these two verbs to fill in the gaps below?
It's a wonderful beach. It ............ for miles (although the answer in the book is stretch).

Thanks a million.

 

[SlickVic9000]

(Not a Teacher)

You could use 'extends' here, too, though I like 'stretches' better.

 

[eggcracker]

Hi
Can we use these two verbs to fill in the gaps below?
It's a wonderful beach. It ............ for miles (although the answer in the book is stretch).

Thanks a million.

It's a wonderful beach. It extends for (nuber) miles.
It's a wonderful beach extending for (number) miles.
It's a wonderful beach which extends for (number) miles.

ALERT: Not a teacher.

 

[BobK]

You could also use - and I suspect most native speakers would use, in most conversational contexts - either 'goes on for miles' or 'carries on for miles'. (They can be hard to remember - and to handle - but generally, colloquially, English uses phrasal verbs when it can - a Germanic trait, which speakers of Romance languages find troublesome!)

b

PS A road or track can wind on for miles, but this verb wouldn't work with a beach - though perhaps it might with a very wiggly coastline.