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Eipjoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
each and the last
In the example:
Hermione was trembling. Excuses, alibis, and wild cover- up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last. He couldn't see how they were going to get out of trouble this time. They were cornered.
What do ‘each’ and ‘the last’ indicate respectively?
Hermione was trembling. Excuses, alibis, and wild cover- up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last. He couldn't see how they were going to get out of trouble this time. They were cornered.
What do ‘each’ and ‘the last’ indicate respectively?
Top answer
They both indicate excuses, alibis and wild cover-up stories.
- They both indicate excuses, alibis and wild cover-up stories.
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Each new excuse that came to mind was worse than the one that had come before. The one that had come before is "the last" until the new one came.
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You mean each one of ‘excuses, alibis, and wild cover-up stories’ that is more plausible than the last one that is the least reasonable can’t be more reasonable, right?
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Yes, thank you very much. Now I can understand what the writer says.
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