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Mon, 27 April 2020 16:19
timmy
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Is the use of 'awhile' rather than discriminating between 'a while' and 'awhile' a US thing?
"Rest here for a while" means "Rest here for a [parcel of time which is undefined, but usually short]"
"Rest awhile" has a very similar meaning, and I'm finding it hard to distinguish between the two. Yet they are different, certainly in the UK.
They are different parts of speech, though. In this case 'while' taking the indefinite article, is a noun, whereas 'awhile' is an adverb.
[Updated on: Tue, 28 April 2020 14:36]
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