As a punishment,
A: The teacher made the boy, as punishment, clean the toilets.
B: The teacher made the boy, as a punishment, clean the toilets.
What's the difference between A and B?
I think "as punishment" has a literal meaning, and it's quite natural.
However, I think "as a punishment" implies that the boy has already been punished more than once, or will be punished in the future more than once. Right?
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anonymous I think "as punishment" has a literal meaning, and it's quite natural. The phrase is natural, but its place in the sentence is not. It has to be at the end or the beginning: The teacher made the boy clean the toilets as punishment.
- anonymous I think "as punishment" has a literal meaning, and it's quite natural.
- The phrase is natural, but its place in the sentence is not.
- It has to be at the end or the beginning: The teacher made the boy clean the toilets as punishment.
- As punishment, the teacher made the boy clean the toilets.
- anonymous However, I think "as a punishment" implies that the boy has already been punished more than once, or will be punished in the future more than once.
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anonymousI think "as punishment" has a literal meaning, and it's quite natural.
The phrase is natural, but its place in the sentence is not. It has to be at the end or the beginning:
The teacher made the boy clean the toilets as punishment.
As punishment, the teacher made the boy clean the toilets.
anonymousHowever, I
0'a punishment' is a specific, temporally bounded task to be performed.
'punishment' is an abstraction roughly equivalent to 'severe treatment'. There is no specific task implied.
The boy deserves punishment.
The teacher will decide on a punishment.
CJ
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