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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
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My library is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time. The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the blank page, and the faded bus ticket marking a page, they all try to remind me of who I was then.
Q) The underlined part is somewhat unfamilar to me.
Is it just another way of saying this?
The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the blank page, and the faded bus ticket marking a page all try to remind me of who I was then.
Q) The underlined part is somewhat unfamilar to me.
Is it just another way of saying this?
The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the blank page, and the faded bus ticket marking a page all try to remind me of who I was then.
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Yes, you are right.
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Does that part happen to have some kind of effect by not using the sentence I made up? Is it like first enumerating the kinds of scribbles and after doing that say what the speaker wants to say? Kind of giving the idea(verb part) a little slowly?
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Your version and the original sentence differ by only one comma and one word: ", they." So both sentences are essentially the same (in fact, yours is, technically speaking, more correct, because the "they" is grammatically redundant). However, the comma and the "they" are needed stylistically and rhythmically. The first sentence in the paragraph paints a picture of the books in the library as
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