Ditto, and to (2) you could add i won't be in next week A ways off, in the kitchen window of my house, you could see my mom’s outline standing at the sink, one elbow raised up and poked out sideways. In fact, you could take a week off trying to decide which one to use
They are all in the same register, and for normal conversational purposes (no deep metaphysical debates, please folks!) they all mean the same thing Will you please tell me what does the phrase a ways off mean and why the indefinite article is used with plural noun in the context bellow Sometimes you can have too many choices in life.
Can anyone clear things up for me Your choices (get off work, finish work, leave work) will all work fine finishing the question about a normal working day I don't see much difference in formality, if any. Sentence (b) is correct, but the phrase off to scotland uses be off, not off to
The to is part of to scotland This is meaning 34 of off in the wordreference dictionary Leaving [be + off] i'm off to europe on monday Some other examples of how off is used this way
The company wants to dispose off the equipment. is this sentence correct Iam confused whether it is dispose of or dispose off as i see a lot of sentences that use dispose off But when i searched i could just find that dispose of is the phrasal verb that should be used I am off to work now does it mean that i am about to work now
Water, electricity and gas tend to use cut off where the mains supply is stopped for any reason, but shut off is fine for water Turn off is also fine, but it lacks the emphasis of cut off or shut off Turn off is the usual expression for ordinarily closing a tap, but you could use shut off for something where there is an emphatic flow of water With a car alarm, i think you can.
Get up from the chair as a command seems odd because you would just tell the person to 'get up' (i want to clean under the chair, for example), but he got up from the chair to get the newspaper So the form is correct Get out of the room is good but not from the.
