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3 Dec 2020
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What is the difference between:
"The telephone was ringing all morning"
and
"The telephone was ringing all morning long"?
What is the difference between:
"The telephone was ringing all morning"
and
"The telephone was ringing all morning long"?
"The telephone was ringing all morning"
and
"The telephone was ringing all morning long"?
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@Miran_
Both are almost the same, but when you said "all morning long" means that was almost no pause in between the ringing.
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i think
"all morning" = all morning
"all day long"= all day--
i don't think we say " all morning long"
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The second one sounds unnatural, it can be said as "The telephone was ringing all day long" instead.
The second one sounds unnatural, it can be said as "The telephone was ringing all day long" instead.
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Both are almost the same, but when you said "all morning long" means that was almost no pause in between the ringing.
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