http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473168Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:39:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473168Ant_2220http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473168http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-473168.xmlWell, this in no way pretends to a definition, I just tried to convey the "business" aspect of your and Amy's explanations... in an exaggerated way. I'm glad I've been understood!http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473147Tue, 26 May 2009 16:39:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473147CalifJim1http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473147http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-473147.xmlWhen I am typing, I am away beause I am consumed cunsumed by typing. Not a bad paraphrase! In a way, it is something like that -- to my mind, anyway. CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473133Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:39:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473133Ant_2222http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473133http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-473133.xmlThank you, Yankee and CalifJIm! When I am typing, I am away beause I am cunsumed by typing.http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473125Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:39:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473125CalifJim3http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473125http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-473125.xmlI associate away with continuity of action and a certain amount of absorption of the mind in the activity, mixed in many cases with an enjoyment of the activity. It's not a particularly formal device. She was happily -- singing away; typing away; cooking away; whistling away It doesn't work with every verb, of course, The sound of the music was dying away in the distance. and it cannot be used in this meaning with statives, *living away, *sitting away, *depending away, *resting away and with many verbs, especially, but not exclusively, with verbs of motion, it has its literal meaning: run away; walk away; go away keep away; stay away; be away CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473098Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:39:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473098Yankee4http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htm#473098http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-473098.xmlHi Ant He's been typing away for hours now. That means he has been busily (or possibly fervently) typing, and suggests "non-stop" typing (i.e. without taking any breaks). Does that answer your question?http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htmThu, 26 Mar 2009 17:39:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473092Ant_2225http://www.englishforums.com/English/TypeAway/zlvqq/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-473092.xmlHello all, I keep stumbling across the phrase "to type away", but I can't figure out whether its meaning is the same as that of just "to type" or not... Need your help.