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Vsuresh Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

intricacies

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In the literary style of writing,can we intricacies to refer the all the organs of the human body?

The robust frame of human body with its marvelous intricacies gets shattered in this fight.
  

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vsuresh HiIn the literary style of writing, can we use 'intricacies' to refer the all the organs of the human body? The robust frame of the human body with its marvelous intricacies gets shattered in this fight. The sentence is fine, but 'intricacies' refers only to those parts that are associated with the frame of the human body, not to all the organs of the human body.

— CalifJim

  • vsuresh HiIn the literary style of writing, can we use 'intricacies' to refer the all the organs of the human body?
  • The robust frame of the human body with its marvelous intricacies gets shattered in this fight.
  • The sentence is fine, but 'intricacies' refers only to those parts that are associated with the frame of the human body, not to all the organs of the human body.
  • The with -phrase connects back with the first noun in that group ( frame ), not with the last ( body ).
  • To make the reference to all the organs you'd have to remove 'frame'.
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vsureshHiIn the literary style of writing, can we use 'intricacies' to refer the all the organs of the human body?
The robust frame of the human body with its marvelous intricacies gets shattered in this fight.
The sentence is fine, but 'intricacies' refers only to those parts that are
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