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Stenka25 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
A letter home
In a webpage below, there's a sentence with "a letter home."
It seems a bit odd as far as nonnatives like me.
To me, it seems the shortened form of "a letter sent home," and becomes popular for its briefness.
Am I right? If not, can you tell me why?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764154/
Their commander realises that the two brothers have not sent any letters back to their parents and gives the order to write a letter home- A Letter From Ulster...
It seems a bit odd as far as nonnatives like me.
To me, it seems the shortened form of "a letter sent home," and becomes popular for its briefness.
Am I right? If not, can you tell me why?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764154/
Their commander realises that the two brothers have not sent any letters back to their parents and gives the order to write a letter home- A Letter From Ulster...
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There is seldom any way to tell how a certain expression arose, but I think as you do about this one, without any evidence to support the idea. You could parse "home" as an adverb and leave it at that, but but I see "letter home" as a kind of letter, like "love letter" or "poison-pen letter".
- There is seldom any way to tell how a certain expression arose, but I think as you do about this one, without any evidence to support the idea.
- You could parse "home" as an adverb and leave it at that, but but I see "letter home" as a kind of letter, like "love letter" or "poison-pen letter".
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There is seldom any way to tell how a certain expression arose, but I think as you do about this one, without any evidence to support the idea. You could parse "home" as an adverb and leave it at that, but but I see "letter home" as a kind of letter, like "love letter" or "poison-pen letter".
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