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Angliholic Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Hold on as best they could

The next day several missionaries came in some boats to get the Patons and their fifty boxes of supplies. The Patons had sit on top of their boxes and hold on as best they could.

Hi,

Is there "tight to something" understood after "hold on" in the above? Thanks.
  

Top answer

Well, it would be to the boxes, but that phrase is not specifically omitted.

— Mister Micawber

  • Well, it would be to the boxes, but that phrase is not specifically omitted.
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Well, it would be to the boxes, but that phrase is not specifically omitted.
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Mister MicawberWell, it would be to the boxes, but that phrase is not specifically omitted.


Thanks, Mister.

To make sure I get the bolded part in your reply right, I'd like to rephrase it as the following. Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.

that phrase "tight to the boxes" is omitted, but we're not sure that's the phrase
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Nothing is grammatically omitted– the phrasal 'hold on' is intransitive– but the reader is free to imagine what is being grasped.
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