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What is the difference between "date back" and "date from"?
Which sentence is correct?
1. The name – and the dish – dates back several centuries.
or
2. The name – and the dish – dates from several centuries.
2024년 4월 18일 오후 5:55
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1 is correct.
Things 'date back' for a length of time.
It dates back 500 years.
It dates back millennia.
Things 'date back TO' a specific period or point in time.
It dates back to the 15th century.
It dates back to the 1940s.
'Dates from' is like 'dates back to' - it uses a point or specific period rather than a length.
It dates from the 15th century.
It dates from the 1940s.
(Though I think dates back to sounds better.)
To correct 2, you could say:
It dates from several centuries AGO.
2024년 4월 18일
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