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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Does my sentence make sense or is it a stretch?

The youngest son of a tallow-chandler, Benjamin Franklin was a flame that help illuminate thirteen colonies as a unified country.
  

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The youngest son of a tallow-chandler, Benjamin Franklin was a flame that helped illuminate the thirteen colonies as a unified country. But the metaphor is still too much of a stretch. Rethink it.

  • The youngest son of a tallow-chandler, Benjamin Franklin was a flame that helped illuminate the thirteen colonies as a unified country.
  • But the metaphor is still too much of a stretch.
  • Rethink it.
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The youngest son of a tallow-chandler, Benjamin Franklin was a flame that helped illuminate the thirteen colonies as a unified country.

But the metaphor is still too much of a stretch. Rethink it.

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