Wangqh2696122 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
"available " or "available "?
Eager to help, the class decided on a name—H2O for Life—and set to work. Students sold wristbands, holiday crafts, and African-themed note cards. A student pianist held a concert that brought in $400. A Girl Scout troop sold valentines and donated $300. In just six months, the kids raised over $12,000.
At the end of the school year, Hall flew to Nairobi and made the bone-rattling three-hour ride across rocky dirt roads to Kathungu. Her hosts held a festive celebration, then showed her the dam, an eight-foot-high sand-and-concrete structure that traps and filters water so that it's ___ and drinkable year-round.
A. available B. accessible
The suggested is "accessible". My question is: can we use "available " here?
At the end of the school year, Hall flew to Nairobi and made the bone-rattling three-hour ride across rocky dirt roads to Kathungu. Her hosts held a festive celebration, then showed her the dam, an eight-foot-high sand-and-concrete structure that traps and filters water so that it's ___ and drinkable year-round.
A. available B. accessible
The suggested is "accessible". My question is: can we use "available " here?
Top answer
I think "accessible" tells us more about the "availability" of the water. It implies that the potential user needs to do his part. I suppose "to access" something is "to avail" yourself of it, but the "yourself" is built into the former.
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I think "accessible" tells us more about the "availability" of the water. It implies that the potential user needs to do his part.
I suppose "to access" something is "to avail" yourself of it, but the "yourself" is built into the former.
Accessible = it's possible (more convenient) to get to it.
Available = just turn on the spigot.
The choice might depend on w
I suppose "to access" something is "to avail" yourself of it, but the "yourself" is built into the former.
Accessible = it's possible (more convenient) to get to it.
Available = just turn on the spigot.
The choice might depend on w
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