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26 Dec 2016
Question about English (UK)
I'm a bit confued about what this sentence means.
if somebody says, "My English is far from being perfect."
do they mean their English is oerfect or the otherwise?
if somebody says, "My English is far from being perfect."
do they mean their English is oerfect or the otherwise?
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I believe it's the latter. If someone says "My [object] is far from [adjective]" means that their [object] is not even close to [adjective]. So in your case, what they mean is that their English is not perfect. It's far from it.
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far from perfect means you are not close to perfect, you are not perfect
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