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I suggested:
... and I waited for another taxi thirty minutes
textbook keys:
... and I waited thirty minutes for another taxi
Does it matter the place of time adverbial?
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Also imaging conversation and you start to talk about taxi but remember that you need to tell about time. I can't imaging that you halt on the middle "by ta..." and begin to say "thirty minutes". I think all adverbials are interchangeable for that reason. Otherwise language is not functional.
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gavenkoa пишет: 25 авг 2019, 21:14 I suggested:
... and I waited for another taxi thirty minutes
It could be I waited for another taxi for 30 mins:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads ... i.2917867/
She had waited for a taxi for twenty minutes. She had been dining in the company of four rowdy men, all of them guffawing at her loud, ribald jokes.
He said he waited for a taxi for an hour, and she responded that the taxi service called in less than the 15 minutes, saying that he wasn't there.
gavenkoa пишет: 25 авг 2019, 21:14 Does it matter the place of time adverbial?
In I waited thirty minutes for another taxi and the like, '30 minutes' might be regarded as something like a direct object of the verb 'to wait' (?) - hence its priority in the word order.
Compare with 'wasted 30 minutes' and the Russian "прождать полчаса".
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