As far as possible/ please help me with this

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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I have two sentences here: are they both correct and do they have the same meaning?

  • Stay as far away from him as possible.
  • Stay away from him as far as possible.

There’s a third one: - Stay as far away as possible from that factory.

@Torsten, @Anglophile, @NearlyNapping, @Arinker

Thank you in advance.

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To me, all of these are fine and have the same meaning.
I might tend to put “as possible” at the end of the sentence as a final qualifier for the whole sentence, but it’s certainly OK in the middle, qualifying “far away”.

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Thanks for your reply, Arinker.

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  • Stay as far away from him as possible.
  • Stay away from him as far as possible.

Both are correct but there is some difference.

In the first case, the focus is on distance while in the second, it is on him.

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Thanks for your reply Anglophile.

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Thanks for this too

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