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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Hi. How should I write this?

I threw a chair against/into/through the window which broke/shattered. Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole in the window.

Thanks in advance.

  

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If the first chair made a hole in the window, then it most likely went through the window, so in effect, you threw two chairs through the window. You can say that like this: I threw a chair through the window. Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole made by the first chair.

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If the first chair made a hole in the window, then it most likely went through the window, so in effect, you threw two chairs through the window.

You can say that like this:

I threw a chair through the window. Then I took another chair and threw it through the hole made by the first chair.


You can't say the window which broke or the window which