Wednesday December 21, 2005
Fun with English grammar and style
By OH TEIK THEAM
Look at this little ‘story’ and see if you can find an error in it.
The missing cash
“One hundred dollars is missing from my cash drawer,” the boss said to his secretary.
“Only you and I have keys to that drawer.”
“I think we should each pay fifty dollars,” she said, “and say nothing farther about the matter.”
Farther should be further.
“Farther” is applied to distance and nothing else; “further”, either to distance or to addition (quantity or time).
The conductor asked the passenger to move farther to the back of the bus.
He is too tired to walk any further.
I was relieved he did not extend his stay further.
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