Jérôme
Explain to me hi guys! May you explain to me what these words "yours is" means grammatically of the end this sentence, please ? "My office is farther from the train station than yours is." Thank you guys
2017년 2월 20일 오전 9:05
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It means that the speaker's office is farther from the train station than the office of the person being spoken to. If the reverse were true, the speaker might say "My office is closer to the station than yours is," or "Your office is farther from the train station than mine is".
2017년 2월 20일
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"Yours" is a possessive pronoun == " le vôtre/le tien/la tienne" "Yours" is replacing "your office". We could also have written: "My office is farther away from the station than your office is. Il se trouve de plus loin que le vôtre. There is also some omission at the end of the sentence because the information is understood from the context. An extra specific version of this sentence could read: "My office is farther away from the station than your office is from the station." But this would be too wordy.
2017년 2월 20일
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hi, it means - your office is. when we omit the object (office) we should transform 'your' into 'yours' for example: it is my pen, not your pen = it is my pen, not yours (object is omitted, so we have YOURS)
2017년 2월 20일
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