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Jayprakash Singh Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Confusion

I know that this sentence is correct: The poem is a sonnet and has fourteen lines.

But what about this one - The poet was mad and ,therefore, writes this poem with anger.


Please elucidate this sentence structure giving some examples!

  

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I know that this sentence is correct: The poem is a sonnet and has fourteen lines. But what about this one - The poet was mad and ,therefore, writes this poem with anger. The use of the Simple Past sets the past as the focus of the sentence.

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  • I know that this sentence is correct: The poem is a sonnet and has fourteen lines.
  • But what about this one - The poet was mad and ,therefore, writes this poem with anger.
  • The use of the Simple Past sets the past as the focus of the sentence.
  • For this reason, say .
  • .
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I know that this sentence is correct: The poem is a sonnet and has fourteen lines.

But what about this one - The poet was mad and ,therefore, writes this poem with anger.

The use of the Simple Past sets the past as the focus of the sentence. For this reason, say . . . wrote this poem with anger. The adverb therefore means that the writer thinks mad poets
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