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Eunjinny Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
A parenthesis
For being a foreigner is a sort of lifelong pregnancy- a personal wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what has once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding.
Could you explain the meaning in the box?
Is it like that the reponsibility is an addtion to your previous ordinary life , and later you found that that previous life has vanished?
And what about to be a foreigner instead being a foreigner? Don't I have to say " feeling of out of sorts'?
Help me!
Could you explain the meaning in the box?
Is it like that the reponsibility is an addtion to your previous ordinary life , and later you found that that previous life has vanished?
And what about to be a foreigner instead being a foreigner? Don't I have to say " feeling of out of sorts'?
Help me!
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In this metaphor, or analogy, life is compared to a sentence in a script. Parenthetical remarks ( phrases included in parentheses like these ) interrupt the flow of the sentence. You find yourself in what seems at first to be a temporary change in condition, and you expect that things will eventually return to normal.
- In this metaphor, or analogy, life is compared to a sentence in a script.
- Parenthetical remarks ( phrases included in parentheses like these ) interrupt the flow of the sentence.
- You find yourself in what seems at first to be a temporary change in condition, and you expect that things will eventually return to normal.
- ) However, you soon discover that the old familiar life is gone forever.
- The "only to" is a little special here without the "true" subject (you) being expressed.
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In this metaphor, or analogy, life is compared to a sentence in a script.
Parenthetical remarks (phrases included in parentheses like these) interrupt the flow of the sentence.
You find yourself in what seems at first to be a temporary change in condition, and you expect that things will eventually return to normal. (The parenthesis is expected to be only a tempor
Parenthetical remarks (phrases included in parentheses like these) interrupt the flow of the sentence.
You find yourself in what seems at first to be a temporary change in condition, and you expect that things will eventually return to normal. (The parenthesis is expected to be only a tempor
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