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Located so close to the city, the Swan river provides a huge draw card for spectators

I don't really understand what a draw card is in that context. Can someone help me please? Smile

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The sentence is written incorrectly. The word "card" does not belong in it. A correct sentence would be, "Located so close to the city, the Swan river provides a huge draw for spectators." In this context, draw means an attraction.

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"Drawing card" not "draw card" is an idiom which means something which draws people to it.

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Flyboy, you are correct! However, i think just "draw" works almost as well as drawing card.

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Yitwail, you are correct, and your example works not almost as well but fully as well, however since the word "card" was in the sentence, they were almost certainly looking for the idiom.

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I agree with you. It was early in the morning when I attempted an answer, and the idiom eluded me at the time. Embarrassed

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Yitwail--

Sometimes we settle for imperfection--otherwise, I'd be dead and gone.

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thanks for your support, noddy! on the one hand, nobody's perfect, but on the other hand, practice makes perfect. and while you shouldn't sweat the small stuff, the devil's in the details. Twisted Evil

there, four idioms gratis for the lucky student reading this thread. Laughing

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