Our table was against the back wall. We were seated right next to the window. The best tables are along the perimeter of the room.
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Thread: Edge of/side of the room
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#1 03-Jan-2013, 16:31Edge of/side of the room
Dear teachers,
How would you say: "I was seated at the edge of the room" (in, for instance, a restaurant).
Many thanks.
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#2 03-Jan-2013, 19:00Re: Edge of/side of the room
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
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#3 04-Jan-2013, 09:36Re: Edge of/side of the room
Thank you!
Originally Posted by Barb_D
Is using 'sitting at/on the edge of the room' completely wrong, by the way?
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#4 04-Jan-2013, 09:44Re: Edge of/side of the room
Yes.
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#5 04-Jan-2013, 18:13Re: Edge of/side of the room
You could sit around the edges of a room. Imagine a large hall with a dancefloor in the middle but lots of single chairs with their backs against each wall. If the music is terrible and no-one is dancing, they might all be sitting on the chairs round the edges.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
