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The deer ____ for the shelter of the forest when there are people about.
A. get
B. take
C. go
D. make
Note: Although I can’t explain why, 'A' sounds the most wrong to me. The rest of the answers seem fine. I checked google counts. It looks like people would use all B, C, and D. What do you prefer in this case and why?
"go for the shelter (22,000,000)"
"take for the shelter (20,400,000)”
"make for the shelter (14,600,000)”
9 jul. 2013 02:14
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NoAgenda:
All of the words are errant expressons.
In the first place, a correct expression for the deer's intentions and action would better be written this way:
"The deer longed for the shelter of the forest...etc."
or
"The deer sought out the shelter of the forest...etc."
The words you are considering, GET, TAKE, GO and MAKE do not serve in this sentence at all.
The Deer does not GET for the shelter for the forest. (Deer do not GET things.)
The Deer does not TAKE for the shelter of the forest. (Deer do not TAKE things.)
The Deer does not GO for the Shelter of the forest. (GO is a present tense).
It may be the Deer "went" for the shelter, but it would be an unimaginative writer us used such a simplistic English. It reads more like a "chinglish".
MAKE can be used, but that also, reads like a "chinglish". (Deer do not MAKE things. The eat them.)
All for terms are either awkward or trite (as MAKE is).
The numbers are strange. Is that some sort of public opninon poll?
If one wants some sort of "popular opinion" to dictate what one thinks and writes, one may as well copy the idioms from TV and Movies and regard them as literary brilliancies.
.---Warm Regards, Bruce
9 juli 2013
1
First off, it only makes sense if you mean plural deer as in 2 or more deer. If it was 1 deer they all would sound awkward. And you are specifying a certain set of deer with "the". If it was a single deer, you could say something like "The deer made for shelter in the forest when he saw people walking about."
To use "took" it would be "took to the shelter of the forest" past tense. Same with go, "go to the shelter of the forest" although nobody would really say that. naturally I would probably say "The deer run to the shelter of the forest" or "The deer run for the shelter of the forest"
9 juli 2013
1
I think "make" is the correct answer. The idiom "make for" can mean "head toward." See the second definition here: http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/make-for
"Go" sounds correct in a literal sense, but "go for" is an idiom that doesn't mean the same thing as "head toward," so it would be confusing for an English speaker.
"Take" sounds incorrect in this context too. "Take for" is an idiom, but I've never heard it used in this context.
"Get" is definitely wrong.
9 juli 2013
1
I would use D, "make for", in its sense of 走向, 前往, 冲向, which case, I would prefer the non-existent choice "head for". C, "go for", 选择, is *possible*, I suppose. For me, none of these have that Goldilocks moment of "this one is *just* right". Who *writes* these hellish things? ;)
9 juli 2013
I think you are correct to think A sounds weird. "get" is an action to obtain something: Ex/ I go and get the soccer ball. I obtain the soccer ball.
In my experience, get can be used as an informal way to say move along, but that is only used in the South here in the United States where language has more informal speaking and more made up words.
I would say C or D but make them an action by making the selections these: goes, or makes.
Hope this helps.
-Z.
9 juli 2013
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