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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Grammar
In this sentence "The leaves stirred, a thousand whispers." grammatically correct? Is it an elliptical construction? "The leaves stirred, producing a thousand whispers. Can a noun phrase ever modify a verb?
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I would treat it as meaning - The leaves stirred, a thousand whispers (arose or (almost) could be/were/seemed to be heard) The "a thousand whispers", like the title of a chapter in a book, here being simply to hint an idea into the mind, like being short for "a thousand whispers were". However, it could perhaps have been written with a semicolon or similar. d
- I would treat it as meaning - The leaves stirred, a thousand whispers (arose or (almost) could be/were/seemed to be heard) The "a thousand whispers", like the title of a chapter in a book, here being simply to hint an idea into the mind, like being short for "a thousand whispers were".
- However, it could perhaps have been written with a semicolon or similar.
- d
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I would treat it as meaning -
The leaves stirred, a thousand whispers (arose or (almost) could be/were/seemed to be heard)
The "a thousand whispers", like the title of a chapter in a book, here being simply to hint an idea into the mind, like being short for "a thousand whispers were".
However, it could perhaps have been written with a semicolon or similar.
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The leaves stirred, a thousand whispers (arose or (almost) could be/were/seemed to be heard)
The "a thousand whispers", like the title of a chapter in a book, here being simply to hint an idea into the mind, like being short for "a thousand whispers were".
However, it could perhaps have been written with a semicolon or similar.
d
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