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jays
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 Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:10 pm Post subject: arrive (complete/completely) |
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I think "complete" in the following sentence should be "completely." I will appreciate any explanation about this.
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Young writers visiting the National Library are brought to a special section where the rough drafts of famous authors are kept. This practice has quite an impact on those writers who previously thought that the works of geniuses arrived complete in a single stroke of inspiration. |
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pugachevV
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Complete is the correct word.
It is an adjective modifying the preceding, "works of geniuses".
It means - entire, having all the necessary or appropriate parts.
In other words: many young writers thought that geniuses wrote the drafts of their famous works without any changes, errors or corrections. |
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