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Hhtt Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Clump of a lakeside woodland

"Just a hundred meters along the road from where Bachmann’s car was waiting stood a clump of lakeside woodland with a public footpath winding through it."

Above sentence is full of the words I am not familiar with. Does "clump" used above mean "cluster/clustering" which means "A grouping of a number of similar things"? But "clump of a woodland" seems odd to me because a woodland is already form a clump, clump of trees. A single tree cannot form a woodland.

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hhtt stood a clump of lakeside woodland ~ stood an isolated section of woodland beside a lake It's a description of an island of trees. The whole 'section', 'segment', or 'island' is surrounded by features other than woodland, perhaps the streets and buildings of a city. 'clump' suggests this isolated nature of the woodland.

  • hhtt stood a clump of lakeside woodland ~ stood an isolated section of woodland beside a lake It's a description of an island of trees.
  • The whole 'section', 'segment', or 'island' is surrounded by features other than woodland, perhaps the streets and buildings of a city.
  • 'clump' suggests this isolated nature of the woodland.
  • It does not go on and on forever into the distance like a forest.
  • CJ
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hhttstood a clump of lakeside woodland

~ stood an isolated section of woodland beside a lake

It's a description of an island of trees. The whole 'section', 'segment', or 'island' is surrounded by features other than woodland, perhaps the streets and buildings of a city. 'clump' suggests this isolated nature of the woodland. It does not go on and on

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"Just a hundred meters along the road from where Bachmann’s car was waiting stood a clump of lakeside woodland with a public footpath winding through it".


Does foothpath winding through it=foothpath passing through it here?

Thank you.

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"Just a hundred meters along the road from where Bachmann’s car was waiting stood a clump of lakeside woodland with a public footpath winding through it."

Sorry for having still some confussions for the sentence. Is the car in the woodland? Would you please explain the part "waiting stood"?

Thank you.

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