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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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"Life is alone"
"Life is alone." is possible in meaning and grammar? Thank you.
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"Life" is a quality of something, it is something that is possessed by an object. Something has or possessed life in the same way that, say, a rose 'has' the color red - it is a property of it. So to say that 'life is alone' would not make much sense as 'life' is not a thing in and of itself.
- "Life" is a quality of something, it is something that is possessed by an object.
- Something has or possessed life in the same way that, say, a rose 'has' the color red - it is a property of it.
- So to say that 'life is alone' would not make much sense as 'life' is not a thing in and of itself.
- You could say 'Life is lonely' to refer to the state of being alive as something that leaves one alone or in a lonely state, but life itself could not be by itself.
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"Life" is a quality of something, it is something that is possessed by an object. Something has or possessed life in the same way that, say, a rose 'has' the color red - it is a property of it. So to say that 'life is alone' would not make much sense as 'life' is not a thing in and of itself. You could say 'Life is lonely' to refer to the state of being alive as something that leaves one alone
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