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Lynn3 Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Grammar issue
A man who was bored with living in London and desired to move to the country was looking for a house from which he could get to his office in the city easily every day. one day he saw an advertisement for a suitable house in Hampshire which was claimed to be within a stone's throw of a railway station from which there were frequent trains to London.
He telephoned the house agency and arranged to go down by train the next day and have a look at the house.
The house agent met him at the station and they drove to the house, which was at least a kilometre from the station.
The man who had come to see the house turned to the house agent when they reached it and objected, "I should be very interested to meet the man who threw that stone you memtioned in your advertisement!"
Q1. What do the two "from which" mean in these two sentence??
Q2. Actually, I have been reading this story for many times why I could not really get this story mean?
Q3. I think this story does not mean " there is a man throwing a stone." right???
Thank you for all your help!
Lynn
He telephoned the house agency and arranged to go down by train the next day and have a look at the house.
The house agent met him at the station and they drove to the house, which was at least a kilometre from the station.
The man who had come to see the house turned to the house agent when they reached it and objected, "I should be very interested to meet the man who threw that stone you memtioned in your advertisement!"
Q1. What do the two "from which" mean in these two sentence??
Q2. Actually, I have been reading this story for many times why I could not really get this story mean?
Q3. I think this story does not mean " there is a man throwing a stone." right???
Thank you for all your help!
Lynn
Top answer
1. The first "which" refers to the the house. The second "which" refers to the railway station.
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- The first "which" refers to the the house.
- The second "which" refers to the railway station.
- The man's objective is to live in a house that is as close to his place of employment as possible.
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1. The first "which" refers to the the house. The second "which" refers to the railway station. The man's objective is to live in a house that is as close to his place of employment as possible.
3. "within a stone's throw" is a term that means "a very short distance". It is a figure of speech that is not always intended to be taken literally. Since the advertisement included this statemen
3. "within a stone's throw" is a term that means "a very short distance". It is a figure of speech that is not always intended to be taken literally. Since the advertisement included this statemen
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Q1. What do the two "from which" mean in these two sentence??
He wants a house he can get to work from easily.
Q2. Actually, I have been reading this story for many times why I could not really get this story mean?
It's a kind of joke. The whole point is that the
He wants a house he can get to work from easily.
Q2. Actually, I have been reading this story for many times why I could not really get this story mean?
It's a kind of joke. The whole point is that the
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from which, this first is " He wants a house he can get to work from easily."
The second is " There were frequent trains to London from a railway staton"??? right?
The second is " There were frequent trains to London from a railway staton"??? right?
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