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Rose Bowl Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Are these sentences correct?

For he laughed so hard that he cried.
For he was furnished with that completeness that if the coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
  

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Are you writing or reading something set in the 1800s? What role do you think the word "for" plays in your sentences?

  • Are you writing or reading something set in the 1800s?
  • What role do you think the word "for" plays in your sentences?
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Are you writing or reading something set in the 1800s?

What role do you think the word "for" plays in your sentences?
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I think "for" means "because" in both sentences.
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toiletbowelsI think "for" means "because" in both sentences.

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Thank you very much.

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