Timeline for "Make something out of" or "Make something with"?
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| Oct 12, 2012 at 20:03 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2012 at 12:45 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @Carlo_R.these questions are nothing alike. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 16:49 | comment | added | user21497 | @coleopterist: Westerners, especially Americans, are such individualists. They think that everyone thinks, feels, lives the way they do. In Asia & in other parts of the world, that just ain't so. Argue with your teacher in Asia, & you get put on a shit-list. The rule here is memorize & regurgitate. Teachers & students are overworked. Students sit, listen, write class notes, memorize, don't ask questions, & care about test scores because their parents do. Understanding is secondary or tertiary. Make your teacher look bad & lose face, & you have to find a new school. I'm easy. No face to lose. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 15:59 | vote | accept | StillAzure | ||
| Oct 8, 2012 at 15:59 | vote | accept | StillAzure | ||
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 15:59 | vote | accept | StillAzure | ||
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 15:23 | comment | added | user19148 | Possible duplicate english.stackexchange.com/questions/83256/… | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 15:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/255322002359975936 | ||
| Oct 8, 2012 at 14:48 | comment | added | Mike Graham | "from" and plain "of" are also in use here. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 13:58 | answer | added | Darrel Hoffman | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 13:29 | comment | added | rurouniwallace | @BillFranke I absolutely abhor when that happens. Especially at times like this, when the alternate answer is perfectly valid. Tests should assess your knowledge of English, not your knowledge of what was covered in lecture last week. Sounds like a really lousy quiz. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:56 | comment | added | itsbruce | @Bill, I hope your answer is a little tongue-in-cheek. Please don't be encouraging a student to conform without question to implicit rules. Student 341464, you could start by debating this politely with your teacher; he or she may be impressed by your imagination and independence and put more thought into future tests (hopefully not just buying them in). If s/he isn't that bright and imaginative, learn to give him/her what is required but never forget that these things should be questioned! | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:54 | comment | added | SF. | Make of - build using almost only paper. Make out of - carve out of a massive block of paper. Make with - use paper in making it, but not as the only component. Make from - use paper, but the final result doesn't appear like paper (say, it's cinderblock created from burnt paper.) | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:49 | comment | added | user21497 | @341464: Teachers frequently give fill-in-the-blank tests that ask for as many words as there are blanks, no more, no fewer. One blank probably means one word; you gave two. They also frequently give tests only on what their lessons covered. There are many ways to fill in that blank: with, from, out of, using, by folding, with glue and, with staples and, with tape and, etc. All those options are correct English, but probably your teacher taught you only with, so that's what you should've put in the blank. You must figure out what your teacher expects & give it to her | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:44 | comment | added | StillAzure | Then yeah this would be a bad quiz. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:44 | comment | added | StillAzure | Okay now I get the different with 'out of' and 'with' I guess. 'out of' is only with majorly only paper and on the other hand 'with' is with paper and other stuff? | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:36 | answer | added | Gulliver | timeline score: 23 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:30 | answer | added | itsbruce | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:25 | comment | added | StillAzure | And that's why I'm confused. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:21 | comment | added | itsbruce | You what? That's nonsense. The student's answer is perfectly valid and there's nothing (as far as we can see) in the question to specify the second answer and rule out the first. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:19 | comment | added | user19148 | Hello 341464, your teacher is right: "made out" is a phrasal verb that you cannot use here (concrete case) because it has a different meaning. | |
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:12 | history | asked | StillAzure | CC BY-SA 3.0 |