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Zerox Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
a sentence that i cant understand
I have a huge problem with this sentence. The task is simple: Complete the passage by supplying ONE English word wherever something is missing. So here is the sentence that is overwhelming for me. I just dont understand the grammatic at the beginning.
______ must have often _________all of us as intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
Does someone has a clue what i should put to those empty places?
______ must have often _________all of us as intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
Does someone has a clue what i should put to those empty places?
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Perhaps: What must have often made all of us [no as ] intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming. but I'd prefer: What must often make all of us intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
- Perhaps: What must have often made all of us [no as ] intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
- but I'd prefer: What must often make all of us intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
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Perhaps:
What must have often made all of us [no as] intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
but I'd prefer:
What must often make
What must have often made all of us [no as] intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
but I'd prefer:
What must often make
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______ must have often _________all of us as intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
Are you positive the 'as' is in the original? If so, then I think we need to take the word 'curious' in its meaning of odd rather than connected with curiosity.
What must have often mark
Are you positive the 'as' is in the original? If so, then I think we need to take the word 'curious' in its meaning of odd rather than connected with curiosity.
What must have often mark
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Going along the lines of Nona--
What must have often impressed all of us as intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
What must have often impressed all of us as intensely curious is just how many literary geniuses have had the ability of detecting things that are still in the process of becoming.
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the "as" is there, Im positive about it. This sentence is from an example test for an university where im trying to apply to.
And there is another hard sentence and i hope that you could take a look at it.
In this _______ it is interesting to place the remarks of Charles Darwin ______ certain observations on science made a good
_____ earlier by the poet Samuel Taylo
And there is another hard sentence and i hope that you could take a look at it.
In this _______ it is interesting to place the remarks of Charles Darwin ______ certain observations on science made a good
_____ earlier by the poet Samuel Taylo
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Does this question stand alone with no hints?
(Darwin wrote almost a century later than Coleridge.)
Here's all I can come up with at the moment:
In this context it is interesting to place the remarks of Charles Darwin alongside certain observations on science made a good
deal earlier by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(Darwin wrote almost a century later than Coleridge.)
Here's all I can come up with at the moment:
In this context it is interesting to place the remarks of Charles Darwin alongside certain observations on science made a good
deal earlier by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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The task was only to put one English word whenever one is needed. And this sentence is like this, no hints, nothing. A rather hard task for a foreign student in my opinion.
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So, it seems like it's the kind of question that could have more than one answer, as long as the answer makes a sentence that expresses a reasonable concept with grammatical correctness.
I suppose mine above might then qualify.
I suppose mine above might then qualify.
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Exactly, but could you explain that sentence a bit for me. Like, are the observations Darwin's or Coleridge's because im confused with that " by the poet ...." part. And I thought that to the second gap belongs " whose" but i guess that's not correct...??
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Samuel Coleridge, poet, made certain scientific observations in his poetry of the late 18th century. Charles Darwin, naturalist, made certain remarks in the late 19th century. It is interesting to compare/contrast their thoughts, which are separated by almost one hundred years.
A scholar could probably give historical detail.
A scholar could probably give historical detail.
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