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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Had
Hi.
"Shrift is an old fashioned word for a confession to a priest, and in the 1500s short shrift meant the brief chance a condemned prisoner had to confess before being put to death." [From the Vocabulary.com website.]
Is had a lexical verb or part of the have to expression (of necessity or strong obligation)?
Thank you.
"Shrift is an old fashioned word for a confession to a priest, and in the 1500s short shrift meant the brief chance a condemned prisoner had to confess before being put to death." [From the Vocabulary.com website.]
Is had a lexical verb or part of the have to expression (of necessity or strong obligation)?
Thank you.
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lexical You could reword as in the 1500s short shrift meant the brief chance to confess before being put to death that a condemned prisoner had.
- lexical You could reword as in the 1500s short shrift meant the brief chance to confess before being put to death that a condemned prisoner had.
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You could reword as
in the 1500s short shrift meant the brief chance to confess before being put to death that a condemned prisoner had.
You could reword as
in the 1500s short shrift meant the brief chance to confess before being put to death that a condemned prisoner had.
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Thank you, Clive, for your useful reply. I assume that the "that" in your rewording is a pronoun which refers to "the brief chance".
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