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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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concerning the sentence, "Only that summer did the flower bloom."

0 I want to ask a question concerning the sentence, "Only that summer did the flower bloom."02br
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00 I think it's ambiguous and we can interpret two ways. One is that the flower didn't bloom until that summer, and after that it kept blooming every year. 02br
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00 The other is that the flower never bloomed except that summer. 02br
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0 I don't see the ambiguity. If I read that sentence, I would assume that it bloomed that summer. It doesn't really talk about what happened after that.

— Marvin A.

  • 0 I don't see the ambiguity.
  • If I read that sentence, I would assume that it bloomed that summer.
  • It doesn't really talk about what happened after that.
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0 I don't see the ambiguity. If I read that sentence, I would assume that it bloomed that summer. It doesn't really talk about what happened after that. 0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10 I want to ask a question concerning the sentence, "Only that summer did the flower bloom."12br
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0 I would not characterize the ambiguity quite as you did. What happened after that summer doesn't really figure into it as strongly as you've stated it.02br
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01i00The flower (plant) never bloomed except during that summer.02br
00 That flower (plant) finally began to produce blooms during that summer.02i02br
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