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AmmonJerro Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Grammatical structure accuracy

Greetings. I wanted to ask if the below sentence was correct as it is:

How these two stories affect Antonio and how Antonio affects the play is as a masterfully placed puzzle by Shakespeare.

or should it rather be:

How these two stories affect Antonio and how Antonio affects the play is as a puzzle masterfully placed by Shakespeare.
  

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Neither, actually; I suppose this is the intention: How these two stories affect Antonio and how Antonio affects the play is a puzzle masterfully conceived by Shakespeare.

— Mister Micawber

  • Neither, actually; I suppose this is the intention: How these two stories affect Antonio and how Antonio affects the play is a puzzle masterfully conceived by Shakespeare.
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Neither, actually; I suppose this is the intention:

How these two stories affect Antonio and how Antonio affects the play is a puzzle masterfully conceived by Shakespeare.
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Well, I intended to use the "as" in the sentence synonymous to "like" because of a sentence I heard in a video game and the grammar within the game was quite meticulous and proper as I recall. The sentence was; "The gods and demons you fear and worship are as insects to me." And of course, there is this definition of as in the first entry in the following link:

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AmmonJerroa sentence I heard in a video game and the grammar within the game was quite meticulous and proper as I recall.
This is an oxymoron.
AmmonJerroSo I thought it was ok to use it in this manner
It is grammatically possible, but it is stylistically very weak.
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