Every year in December, Christmas decorations of green, red adn gold adorn

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Every year in December, Christmas decorations of green, red and gold adorn stores, homes and street displays.

For a start, is decorate interchangeable with "adorn" in the above?

Second, what does "street displays" refer to? And I presume "adorn streets" makes more sense than "adorn street displays." Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

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For a start, is decorate interchangeable with "adorn" in the above? Yes. Both imply beautifying. decorate is not used for reasons of style. It would create a sentence with decorations decorate.

Second, what does "street displays" refer to? Garlands of tinsel, wreaths, ribbons, strings of colorful lights, various images of candles, reindeer, pine trees, candy canes, and similar icons of the season placed along streets, mostly above eye level overhead. And I presume "adorn streets" makes more sense than "adorn street displays." Yes. You don't decorate the decorations -- something which is incorrectly implied within the sentence.

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CJ

Angliholic · Answer

CalifJim<<

For a start, is decorate interchangeable with "adorn" in the above? Yes. Both imply beautifying. decorate is not used for reasons of style. It would create a sentence with decorations decorate.

Second, what does "street displays" refer to? Garlands of tinsel, wreaths, ribbons, strings of colorful lights, various images of candles, reindeer, pine trees, candy canes, and similar icons of the season placed along streets, mostly above eye level overhead. And I presume "adorn streets" makes more sense than "adorn street displays." Yes. You don't decorate the decorations -- something which is incorrectly implied within the sentence.

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CJ

Thanks, Jim.

To make sure, could I say "wreaths of tinsel" instead?

Does "various images of candles" refer to "various kinds of candles?"

Last, I googled the photoes of "similar icons of the season," and I got many kinds of icons of the four seasons. So, I wonder whether you referred to the icons of the winter or the four seasons.

Feebs11 · Answer

Angliholic
CalifJim<<

For a start, is decorate interchangeable with "adorn" in the above? Yes. Both imply beautifying. decorate is not used for reasons of style. It would create a sentence with decorations decorate.

Second, what does "street displays" refer to? Garlands of tinsel, wreaths, ribbons, strings of colorful lights, various images of candles, reindeer, pine trees, candy canes, and similar icons of the season placed along streets, mostly above eye level overhead. And I presume "adorn streets" makes more sense than "adorn street displays." Yes. You don't decorate the decorations -- something which is incorrectly implied within the sentence.

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CJ

Thanks, Jim.

To make sure, could I say "wreaths of tinsel" instead? You could say it as well as garlands of tinsel.

Does "various images of candles" refer to "various kinds of candles?" No - it means images of candles - possibly made up by little lights. See here: http://tinyurl.com/237taq and here http://tinyurl.com/29ag44

Last, I googled the photoes of "similar icons of the season," and I got many kinds of icons of the four seasons. So, I wonder whether you referred to the icons of the winter or the four seasons. The icons of the Christmas season.

Angliholic · Answer

Thanks, Feebs.

Got it.

Every year in December, Christmas decorations of green, red adn gold adorn

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