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Samersamer1974 Posted 10 years ago
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Hello I have read a short story written by Edgar Poe "the fall of the house of usher", could you explain what does the clauses underlined mean : I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment ,that of looking down within the tarn , had been to deepen the first singular impression
2:does an infinitive come after had been
3: for "that " what does mean if like " of looking" comes after it?
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samersamer1974 that of looking down within the tarn , had been to deepen the first singular impression (The one effect of) the experiment of looking down into the pool had been to strengthen my first thoughts about how unusual/remarkable/strange the place was. 2 Yes. 3.

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  • samersamer1974 that of looking down within the tarn , had been to deepen the first singular impression (The one effect of) the experiment of looking down into the pool had been to strengthen my first thoughts about how unusual/remarkable/strange the place was.
  • 2 Yes.
  • 3.
  • In a context like this, that specifies the thing just mentioned (here it refers to the somewhat childish experiment ).
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samersamer1974that of looking down within the tarn , had been to deepen the first singular impression
(The one effect of) the experiment of looking down into the pool had been to strengthen my first thoughts about how unusual/remarkable/strange the place was.
2 Yes.
3. In a context like this, that specifies the thing just mentioned (here
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You need a space after a punctuation mark, not before it.
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I think you are confused by "experiment, that of"

It means: the experiment I did was look down within the tarn. (A tarn is a very old word for lake. Nobody uses it anymore.)
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AlpheccaStars(A tarn is a very old word for lake. Nobody uses it anymore.)
It's still in use in parts of England. Specifically, a tarn is a lake or pool in a cwm (corrie, cirque), but in some areas of Northern England the word is used for any pool or lake.
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Edgar Allen Poe was an American. I've never heard any of my fellow Americans using "tarn" for "lake".
Sorry for being ignorant about the Brits!
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