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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

A sentence restoration.

I have found the following sentence on the internet and restored it.

source) Always a reminder that life is fragile and precious.
restoration) There is always a reminder that life is fragile and precious.

I'd like to know whether or not my restored version is right.

In advance, thank you for your help.
  

Top answer

The way you're using the word "restore" is unusual, and I'm not sure what you're trying to do. But here are some comments. The source is not a complete sentence - however, something like this might very well be used, for effect, even if it is not a sentence.

— Anonymous

  • The way you're using the word "restore" is unusual, and I'm not sure what you're trying to do.
  • But here are some comments.
  • The source is not a complete sentence - however, something like this might very well be used, for effect, even if it is not a sentence.
  • Your "restoration" of it is a correct sentence.
  • However, depending on the context in which the original appears, the restoration may not have captured the original sense - my guess is that it does not reflect the original sense.
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The way you're using the word "restore" is unusual, and I'm not sure what you're trying to do. But here are some comments.

The source is not a complete sentence - however, something like this might very well be used, for effect, even if it is not a sentence. Your "restoration" of it is a correct sentence. However, depending on the context in which the original appears, the restoratio
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Thank you for your concrete accounts, No Name.

"the original might have been a caption under a picture of a seabird caught in an oil spill"
If so, What does the word 'always' modify?
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The original is a fragment of a sentence, such as, for example: "A picture such as this is always a reminder that life is fragile and precious." In this complete sentence "always" is an adverb modifying the verb "is."
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Thank you for your kind answer ^^
Why haven't you registered on this forum?
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park sang joon^^
Why do you still use something that most native speaker's don't understand? It's not natural in English.
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Hm~ I think the emoticons that we express the expression are simple but effective and I hope all the people in this forum use those, so I have been spreading the emoticons.
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park sang joon ^^
Are you using ^^ as an emoticon? What does it mean to you? Do you expect anyone else to understand it?

This site comes with 99 emoticons you can access by clicking the smiley face above the "reply" box. Why would you think it necessary to make up another one?
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The emoticons embeded in the script consume much more memory, so they are too inefficient.
I am conserving our resource ;;
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park sang joonHm~ I think the emoticons that we express the expression are simple but effective and I hope all the people in this forum use those, so I have been spreading the emoticons.
You are using non-English forms in an English language forum. We are not here for you to spread other ideas.
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Your thought is right,
First I didn't know the existence of the embeded emoticons, and then I didn't like the embeded emoticons for some reasons.
I'd like to use continuously my emoticons. Shouldn't I use those?
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