I walked around inside my office.

[tufguy]

1) I walked around inside my office.

2) I walked around my neighborhood.

3) I walked through my neighborhood.

4) I walked through the hospital.

Here "Around" means outside or around the boundary and "Through" means like "Passed through". Am I correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

1) I walked around inside my office.

2) I walked around my neighborhood.

3) I walked through my neighborhood.

4) I walked through the hospital.

Here, "around" means outside or around the boundary and "through" means like "passed through". Am I correct?

1) When would you ever need to say that?
2) Why would you walk round the boundary of your neighbourhood? You're wrong about this one. Read it as "I walked around" (meaning "I wandered [aimlessly]" followed by where you walked.
3) Yes.
4) Yes.

 

[Tdol]

1) When would you ever need to say that?

I have yet to say this one.

 

[Yankee]

1) I walked around inside my office. As stated and with no context I would understand that the activity did not occur "outside or around the boundary", but that it happened within the office.

2) I walked around my neighborhood. Through or within the area of the neighborhood.

3) I walked through my neighborhood. Same as (2).

4) I walked through the hospital. Within the hospital.
Here "Around" means outside or around the boundary and "Through" means like "Passed through". Am I correct?

See notes.

 

[GoesStation]

I walked through the hospital can also mean "I entered the hospital on one side, took a direct route to the other, and left it." You could say this if the hospital had been between where you were and the place you were going.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think that's what tufguy meant in post #1 when he said that "through" means "passed through".

 

[tufguy]

I think that's what tufguy meant in post #1 when he said that "through" means "passed through".

No, I meant "I wandered inside the hospital".

 

[Tarheel]

No, I meant "I wandered around inside the hospital".

OK.

 

[Tdol]

No, I meant "I wandered inside the hospital".

In that case, you were probably wrong.