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Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Day after day the facts were pounded home to them
pound (verb)
2 c : to inculcate by insistent repetition : drive <day after day the facts were pounded home to them - Ivy B. Priest>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
pound: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pound?show=2&t=1292344899
In Priest's quoted sentence "pounded" seems more close in meaning to 'sent' and not to as described in the definition. Do you see it the same way. e.g. All the mathematics formulae were pounded into students memory after three hours of vigorous hard work.
2 c : to inculcate by insistent repetition : drive <day after day the facts were pounded home to them - Ivy B. Priest>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
pound: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pound?show=2&t=1292344899
In Priest's quoted sentence "pounded" seems more close in meaning to 'sent' and not to as described in the definition. Do you see it the same way. e.g. All the mathematics formulae were pounded into students memory after three hours of vigorous hard work.
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Hello Jackson6612 In Priest's quoted sentence "pounded" seems more close in meaning to 'sent' and not to as described in the definition I think "pound" emphasises the "insistent repetition". He does say that these facts were repeated "day after day". In the second sentence there is not such a great sense of repetition with "three hours of vigorous hard work".
- Hello Jackson6612 In Priest's quoted sentence "pounded" seems more close in meaning to 'sent' and not to as described in the definition I think "pound" emphasises the "insistent repetition".
- He does say that these facts were repeated "day after day".
- In the second sentence there is not such a great sense of repetition with "three hours of vigorous hard work".
- Certainly pound is it not wrong here and in itself gives the suggestion of forceful repetition.
- For me using "send something home" is more for one shocking event that engraves something on the memory.
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Jackson6612In Priest's quoted sentence "pounded" seems more close in meaning to 'sent' and not to as described in the definitionI think "pound" emphasises the "insistent repetition". He does say that these facts were repeated "day after day". In the second sentence there is not such a great sense of repetition with "three hours of vigorous hard work". Ce
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