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Enkidu Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
a quick q (urgent please)
I suddenly have a desire to tell a story, through images, of horses and men; of how they work together from dawn to sunset, opening gates and closing in the herds.
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It sounds as if the herd (the cattle) have been roaming free but are then brought back in through the gates and are thus closed in (= shut in).
- It sounds as if the herd (the cattle) have been roaming free but are then brought back in through the gates and are thus closed in (= shut in).
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It sounds as if the herd (the cattle) have been roaming free but are then brought back in through the gates and are thus closed in (= shut in).
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In the American west, cowboys often used domesticated horses to capture herds of cows or wild horses. Riding their cow ponies, they would round up the wild herds, drive them into corrals, and then close the gates.
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