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Exodejavu Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

About narrative effect (only a sentence)

Someone hawked his goods to me on the street. I picked one. Upon hearing the rip-off price, I gasped in an unnoticeable manner.


Given this background information, which sentence among the following will cause a tense effect?

a) I gasped unnoticeably.
b) I gasped, unnoticeably.
c) I gasped. Unnoticeably.


Thank you.


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Hi, Someone hawked his goods to me on the street. I picked one. Upon hearing the rip-off price, I gasped in an unnoticeable manner.

  • Hi, Someone hawked his goods to me on the street.
  • I picked one.
  • Upon hearing the rip-off price, I gasped in an unnoticeable manner.
  • This is not written in a very natural way.
  • Given this background information, which sentence among the following will cause a tense effect?
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3 Answers
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Hi,

Someone hawked his goods to me on the street. I picked one. Upon hearing the rip-off price, I gasped in an unnoticeable manner. This is not written in a very natural way.

Given this background information, which sentence among the following will cause a tense effect?

I don't know what you mean by 'a tense effect'.

a) I gasped unnoti
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[Words in gray are what I wrote in the original post;
words in blue are what Clive wrote in his above reply.]

>> Someone hawked his goods to me on the street. I picked one. Upon hearing the rip-off price, I gasped in an
>> unnoticeable manner.
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Hi again,

[Words in gray are what I wrote in the original post;

words in blue are what Clive wrote in his above reply.]

>> Someone hawked his goods to me on the street. I picked one. Upon hearing the rip-off price, I gasped in an

>> unnoticeable manner.

> This is not written in a very natural way.

Ah, which pa

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