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Grammar

1. Grammar 2. Meaning

1. Do you say: "The colony of Virgina" or "The colony Virginia" or can you say both?

2. The following sentence is found in Tony Morrison's novel "Sula": "It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother." What does "keloid" mean?
  

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(1) 'The Colony of Virginia', 'Virginia Colony' would both have been used in those days, I believe, when naming it, and it was likely referred to also as 'the Virginia colony'. (2) A keloid is an overgrowth of dense fibrous tissue that usually develops after healing of a skin injury.

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  • (1) 'The Colony of Virginia', 'Virginia Colony' would both have been used in those days, I believe, when naming it, and it was likely referred to also as 'the Virginia colony'.
  • (2) A keloid is an overgrowth of dense fibrous tissue that usually develops after healing of a skin injury.
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(1) 'The Colony of Virginia', 'Virginia Colony' would both have been used in those days, I believe, when naming it, and it was likely referred to also as 'the Virginia colony'.

(2) A keloid is an overgrowth of dense fibrous tissue that usually develops after healing of a skin injury.
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Thanks for your help.
By the way, I like your call name, as I am a big Dickens fan.

Sisse.
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