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Essay & Composition Writing

About the intrinsic meaning of "late"

Could anyone tell and right the wrong of my naive ideas?

[late]---arriving, happening, after the usual, arranged, necessary, or expected time;

In my naive ideas, the orininal = arriving, happening, after a particular time that is usual for the time / that is arranged for the time / that is necessary for the time / that is expected for the time;

[for]= as help to ;

thanks a lot in advance.
  

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-- [for]= as help to

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The rest sounds OK, but what does this mean?--

[for]= as help to
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Hi,

Sorry about the confusion.

It should be [as a help to].
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No. We cannot 'help time'.
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Hi,

{The doctors were too late to save him.}

In the sentence, we can find the strength and power of "be late" from reversing a certain action to stopping the possibility of the action , that has it predictable ---[be too late to save him].

Now let's come back to the definition of [late];

[late]----(of me) arriving, happening, after a timing that is necessary as
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So, there are so many adj. have the dominating to the noun they describe.

be good for health

---It is good in favor of health;

be heavy to do something----be heavy against to do something;

your book---the book to belong to you;

the school bus;

Against what might be expected, so many adj. become a beneficiary of the noun (they describe).
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