[Grammar] As long as I hear the birdsong

[Czaja]

Hello. I've got a question about one sentence. Cause I would like to know wheter my form is good or not.


As long as I hear the birdsong,.... (I gonna fight, for example)

Is it correct form? Or should be added can, just:

As long as I can hear the birdsong,...

Cause I dont think that i can use word til or whatever other instead as long as.
Please help me.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello. I've got a question about one sentence. Cause I would like to know wheter my form is good or not.


As long as I hear the birdsong,.... (I gonna fight, for example)

Is it correct form? Or should be added can, just:

As long as I can hear the birdsong,...

Cause I dont think that i can use word til or whatever other instead as long as.
Please help me.

Welcome to the forum. :hi:

Note my corrections above. I have changed your thread title so that it includes some/all of the words you are querying.

Are you suggesting that you want to say "Til I hear the birdsong"? If so, the answer is "No, you can't". "As long as" does not mean the same as "until".

I have no idea what you meant by "I gonna fight". For a start, "gonna" is not a word. You might have meant "I'm going to fight" but, even so, I have no idea what that has to do with hearing birdsong.

 

[jutfrank]

It's not very clear what you're asking, Czaja.

As long as I hear the birdsong,
As long as I can hear the birdsong,

These are both correct in form.

Are you asking about can or as long as?

 

[Czaja]

I mean that hearing the birdsong is like a motivation for me to do something. So i want to say, that: I will be able to do it as long as I hear the birdsong.. So it in other sentence means Til I stop to hear the birdsong.
I mean just as long as, but im not sure is it correct or not.

 

[emsr2d2]

I mean that hearing the birdsong is like a motivation for me to do something. So I want to say (no comma here) that (no colon here) I will be able to do it as long as I hear the birdsong. So it in other sentence means (the underlined part makes no sense) "Til I stop to hear the birdsong".
I mean "just as long as", but [strike]im[/strike] I'm not sure [strike]is[/strike] if it is correct or not.

I'm still confused by your question. Are you asking if "As long as I hear the birdsong" means the same as "Until I stop to hear the birdsong"?

 

[Czaja]

Can u explain these two different meanings?

 

[emsr2d2]

Can you explain these two different meanings?

There is no such word as "u". Please use full, standard English words on the forum. Please answer my question first.

 

[Czaja]

I am so sorry.

I'm still confused by your question. Are you asking if "As long as I hear the birdsong" means the same as "Until I stop to hear the birdsong"?

Yes.

 

[Czaja]

So could you someone explain me that difference?

 

[jutfrank]

I see what you mean now.

There's a difference between for as long as (a phrase about time, like until) and as long as (a phrase about condition).

So your sentence could be:

I'm going to fight for as long as I hear the birdsong.

which has a similar meaning to:

I'm going to fight until I stop hearing the birdsong.



[To emsr2d2: Pardon me -- I hadn't realised you'd already responded when I submitted my first post. I hope you don't mind my answering this query.]

 

[emsr2d2]

No problem at all. I still couldn't make head nor tail of the OP's actual question!

 

[emsr2d2]

So could you someone explain [STRIKE]me[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]that[/STRIKE] the difference to me?

See above. You can't say "Explain me". It's either "explain XXX to me" or "explain to me why ...".