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differentiating between shore, shoreline, beach, coast, coastline. sand.

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Dr Adequate

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01-12-2015 5:58 PM

Reply to: Message 1 by nima
01-12-2015 1:05 PM

The ship was anchored off shore.

The ship was anchored off coast.

The first one should be "anchored offshore", without a space between "off" and "shore", and the second one should be "anchored off the coast" --- and maybe there isn't a good reason. I'll let you know if I think of one, but sometimes the English language is just a bit weird.

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