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all right shmoopers were on number eight

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of 11 here and the key word here is

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farther and it's really good because our

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earlier version of this there was a typo

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they forgot the H in there and that [Man pulling weird face as girl smells something]

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meant something completely different so

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let's go back through here and look at

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the paragraph it's in....

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answer here is definitely not no change

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but it's one of the other three well

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according to this sentence us

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competitiveness will improve by some

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amount right in this case the amount is

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described using metaphorical distance

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when it comes to metaphorical distance

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use further always farther and you can

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think about the implications if there [woman walks away from smell]

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are typos involved for example you'll be

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ten thousand times further ahead after

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hanging around shmoop farther means more

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distant but only literally replacing [hills in the distance]

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farther with from far away or distantly

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also ignores the figurative meaning of

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the sentence so yeah it's see further

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