Question

1. Passport,please.
(What is the complete form of this one?)

2. Without a passport you can't leave a country and enter other countries.

2-1. Without a passport you can't leave a country or enter other countries.

(What is the difference between the two sentences? [and, or])

3. The game went on for five hours.
3-1. The game continued for five hours.
(Are both the same? Does 'go on' mean 'continue'?)

4. I had lunch in a second.
(What is the meaning of ' in a second'?)

Answer 1

1 - The whole question is this: May I have your passport, please?

2 and 2-1 are almost the same. 2 implies that you'd need the passport to leave one country <b>and</b> enter another. 2-1 implies that you'd be trying to do one or the other, but you'd be successful at neither without a passport.

3 and 3-1 mean the same thing. Yes, "go on" means the same thing as "continue." (And that's why, when people write or say "continue on" they are being redundant!)

4 seems to mean that you ate lunch so fast, it seemed as if only a second had passed between beginning and end! If you want to say, "I'm about to have lunch," you could say, "I'll have lunch in a second." In that phrasing, "in a second" just means the same as "very soon."

Answer 2

1. The complete form is -- "May I see your passport, please." or "I need to see your passport, please."

2. Both are o.k. But I prefer 2-1 because even if you could leave your own country without a passport, you can't enter another country without one.

3. Both are the same.

4. I'm not sure what you mean here. "In a second" means that you ate lunch in one second (1/60th part of a minute).