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angel-dolphin
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 Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: I need your help!! |
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I cannot understand this following sentence.
"Sunday morning saw us on our way back to Japan."
A translation says that the sentence means
"we were on the way back to Japan on sunday morning."
But I still can't understand what are missing in
the original sentence and if something are inverted.
Please explain the sentence for me. Please! |
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pavilion
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: I need your help!! |
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| angel-dolphin wrote: |
I cannot understand this following sentence.
"Sunday morning saw us on our way back to Japan."
A translation says that the sentence means
"we were on the way back to Japan on sunday morning."
But I still can't understand what are missing in
the original sentence and if something are inverted.
Please explain the sentence for me. Please! |
Well, nothing is missing from the sentence. It is correct. It's harder to understand because it is an uncommon sentence structure. "Sunday morning" is the subject. It has been personified, meaning given human traits. It is doing the seeing. That's why it may seem awkward to you.
Hopefully that helped. If not, maybe someone else can expound on it for me |
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angel-dolphin
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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thank you! i understand what you said.
but when do you use that structure using personified words?
i mean is it a formal style?
and i have one more question for someone who can answer for me.
well, when here is a sentence.
"She comes to see me every Sunday."
when you rewrite this sentense with "never," how do you do it?
i thought "She never fails to come to see me on Sundays." and
"She never fails to come to see me every Sunday." are the answer.
but it says the answer is "She never fails to come to see me on Sunday." i can't understand it. doesn't "on Sunday" mean one particular
Sunday, does it??? |
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pavilion
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| angel-dolphin wrote: |
thank you! i understand what you said.
but when do you use that structure using personified words?
i mean is it a formal style? |
No, its not formal. Its really only used for stories or poetic effect. It is very, very rare to ever see that written, and I don't think I've ever heard a person say something like in a conversation, unless they are narrating a story.
| angel-dolphin wrote: |
and i have one more question for someone who can answer for me.
well, when here is a sentence.
"She comes to see me every Sunday."
when you rewrite this sentense with "never," how do you do it?
i thought "She never fails to come to see me on Sundays." and
"She never fails to come to see me every Sunday." are the answer.
but it says the answer is "She never fails to come to see me on Sunday." i can't understand it. doesn't "on Sunday" mean one particular
Sunday, does it??? |
To me, they all sound right. And I am a native speaker. Maybe someone else can render an opinion on this. |
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angel-dolphin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:37 am Post subject: |
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oh really? i see it's not really common.
now one of my questions has been solved. thak you for your help, pavilion!
so now one more to be solved:(
okay, they all sound right to native speakers.
"She never fails to come to see me on Sundays."
"She never fails to come to see me every Sunday."
"She never fails to come to see me on Sunday."
then do they all mean the same?
i need your help!! somebody please! |
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