Learn English – How far is the safari park from here

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Which is/are the correct and natural answer(s) to this question?

  • It is ten miles far from here.
  • It is ten miles far away from here.
  • It is ten miles far away.
  • It is ten miles away.
  • It is ten miles away from here.

Best Answer

Usually you imply the current position in the question, and imply everything except the distance in the answer (as it's given in the question), so it would be just:

"How far is it to the safari park?"
"Ten miles."

If you flesh that out with all the redundancy, you get:

"How far is it to the safari park from here?"
"It's ten miles to the safari park from here."

You can of course leave out different parts of the answer, and change the order:

"It's ten miles from here."
"It's ten miles to the safari park."
"It's ten miles."
"It's ten miles from here to the safari park."
"From here it's ten miles to the safari park."
"From here it's ten miles."
"The safari park is ten miles from here."

You can use away instead of from here:

"It's ten miles away."
"The safari park is ten miles away."

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