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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
"A little beyond the ruins about the smashed handling-machine I
came upon the red weed again, and found the Regent's Canal, a spongy mass
of dark-red vegetation."
Does "a spongy mass of dark-red vegetation" refer to the weed or the bridge?
Because the weed clogged waterways before in the story, but I think gramatically that "a spongy mass
of dark-red vegetation" does infact refer to the weed itself.
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"A little beyond the ruins about the smashed handling-machine I
came upon the red weed again, and found the Regent's Canal, a spongy mass
of dark-red vegetation."
Does "a spongy mass of dark-red vegetation" refer to the weed or the bridge?
Because the weed clogged waterways before in the story, but I think gramatically that "a spongy mass
of dark-red vegetation" does infact refer to the weed itself.
Top answer
The passage is confused, and the commas undoubtedly misplaced, but without further revision to the grammar, the placement of the phrase at the end can only mean that the writer intended it to refer to the canal-- which may indeed have been so full of the red weed that the canal looked like a sponge rather than a waterway.
- The passage is confused, and the commas undoubtedly misplaced, but without further revision to the grammar, the placement of the phrase at the end can only mean that the writer intended it to refer to the canal-- which may indeed have been so full of the red weed that the canal looked like a sponge rather than a waterway.
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The passage is confused, and the commas undoubtedly misplaced, but without further revision to the grammar, the placement of the phrase at the end can only mean that the writer intended it to refer to the canal-- which may indeed have been so full of the red weed that the canal looked like a sponge rather than a waterway.
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