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Oliver01 Posted 13 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Comprehension issue

"A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling"

Does this describe the house as a modern house. Why does he say bleak moorland house then? slightly confused
  

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Does this describe the house as a modern house. Yes. Why does he say bleak moorland house then?

— Clive

  • Does this describe the house as a modern house.
  • Yes.
  • Why does he say bleak moorland house then?
  • slightly confused Modern houses can still be bleak moorland houses.
  • Clive
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Does this describe the house as a modern house. Yes.


Why does he say bleak moorland house then? slightly confused Modern houses can still be bleak moorland houses.

Clive
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Just read it again and you are right it could still be modern.
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