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Zahra Mir
Is it correct to say a mountain is spread over a country?
If a mountain is located in a country from east to west, then can we say:
mountain X is spread over the country?
Thank you in advance
Mar 1, 2015 1:00 PM
Answers · 6
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'Spread' is not the ideal word to use here, because 'spread' suggests movement of some kind. Populations, fires, wars, fires and diseases can spread across a country, for example, but it would be unusual to use this word for a mountain.
'Stretch' or 'extend' would be a more likely verb. Also, is it perhaps a range of mountains, rather than a single mountain? For example, the XX mountains extend east to west across the country.
March 1, 2015
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Sure! :)
March 1, 2015
1
I think "stretches" is adequate, or you could also write or say that the mountain "ranges" from one end of the land mass to the other. A series of mountain peaks is referred to as a "mountain range".
March 1, 2015
I would say "The mountain stretches across the country from west to east "
March 1, 2015
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Zahra Mir
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