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A. Some of us were better at it than others, but it was considered a kind of treat, a game that broke up the school day. You took a sentence, threw it against the wall, picked up the pieces, and put them together again, slotting each word into its pigeonhole. When you got it right, you made order and sense out of what we used all the time and took for granted: sentences.
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1. The underlined, “broke up the school day”, does this mean, “it made the school day happy”? If so, how come it means that?
B. Her mother went on smiling for a moment, and then her hand went to her mouth. She screamed through her hand. Garrish shot through it. Hand and head disappeared in a red spray. The man who had been loading the suitcases broke into a lumbering run.
Garrish tracked him and shot him in the back. He raised his head, looking out of the sight for a moment. Quinn was holding the softball and looking at the blond girl's brains, which were splattered on the NO PARKING sign behind her prone body. Quinn didn't move. All across the mall people stood frozen, like children engaged in a game of statues.
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2. “He raised his head”. Here, I guess “He” does not mean “Garrish”. It means some one else?
3. “looking out of the sight for a moment”. Does this mean “someone could not see, someone’s vision was blocked”? Or does this mean “someone looked through something”?
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Broke up the school day
A. Some of us were better at it than others, but it was considered a kind of treat, a game that broke up the school day. You took a sentence, threw it against the wall, picked up the pieces, and put them together again, slotting each word into its pigeonhole. When you got it right, you made order and sense out of what we used all the time and took for granted: sentences.
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1. The underlined, “broke up the school day”, does this mean, “it made the school day happy”? If so, how come it means that?
B. Her mother went on smiling for a moment, and then her hand went to her mouth. She screamed through her hand. Garrish shot through it. Hand and head disappeared in a red spray. The man who had been loading the suitcases broke into a lumbering run.
Garrish tracked him and shot him in the back. He raised his head, looking out of the sight for a moment. Quinn was holding the softball and looking at the blond girl's brains, which were splattered on the NO PARKING sign behind her prone body. Quinn didn't move. All across the mall people stood frozen, like children engaged in a game of statues.
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2. “He raised his head”. Here, I guess “He” does not mean “Garrish”. It means some one else?
3. “looking out of the sight for a moment”. Does this mean “someone could not see, someone’s vision was blocked”? Or does this mean “someone looked through something”?
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Hi, A. Some of us were better at it than others, but it was considered a kind of treat, a game that broke up the school day . You took a sentence, threw it against the wall, picked up the pieces, and put them together again, slotting each word into its pigeonhole.
- Hi, A.
- Some of us were better at it than others, but it was considered a kind of treat, a game that broke up the school day .
- You took a sentence, threw it against the wall, picked up the pieces, and put them together again, slotting each word into its pigeonhole.
- When you got it right, you made order and sense out of what we used all the time and took for granted: sentences.
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A. Some of us were better at it than others, but it was considered a kind of treat, a game that broke up the school day. You took a sentence, threw it against the wall, picked up the pieces, and put them together again, slotting each word into its pigeonhole. When you got it right, you made order and sense out of what we used all the time and took for granted: sentences.
A. Some of us were better at it than others, but it was considered a kind of treat, a game that broke up the school day. You took a sentence, threw it against the wall, picked up the pieces, and put them together again, slotting each word into its pigeonhole. When you got it right, you made order and sense out of what we used all the time and took for granted: sentences.
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Hi, again...
1. How about, "He looked out of sight". Without "the", from "out of the sight".
Does it mean the same with or without "the"?
2. Garrish tracked "him" and shot "him" in the back. "He" raised his head.
Here, the "he". I didn't know that the "he" in "He raised his head" meant "Garrish". In purely grammatical point, is there no possibility
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B. Her mother went on smiling for a moment, and then her hand went to her mouth. She screamed through her hand. Garrish shot through it. Hand and head disappeared in a red spray. The man who had been loading the suitcases broke into a lumbering run.
Garrish tracked him and shot him in the back. He raised his head, looking out of the sight for a moment. Quinn w
B. Her mother went on smiling for a moment, and then her hand went to her mouth. She screamed through her hand. Garrish shot through it. Hand and head disappeared in a red spray. The man who had been loading the suitcases broke into a lumbering run.
Garrish tracked him and shot him in the back. He raised his head, looking out of the sight for a moment. Quinn w
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