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Teo Posted 6 years ago
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Losing my family left me an emotional cripple.

Losing my family left me an emotional cripple. (Longman Advanced Amercian Dictionary, page 331)

Does the above sentence mean "Losing my family made me become an emotional cripple"?

  

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Teo Losing my family left me an emotional cripple. (Longman Advanced Amercian Dictionary, page 331) Does the above sentence mean "Losing my family made me become an emotional cripple"? Yes.

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  • Teo Losing my family left me an emotional cripple.
  • (Longman Advanced Amercian Dictionary, page 331) Does the above sentence mean "Losing my family made me become an emotional cripple"?
  • Yes.
  • It describes the state of the speaker after the loss.
  • That's why it has "left".
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Teo

Losing my family left me an emotional cripple. (Longman Advanced Amercian Dictionary, page 331)

Does the above sentence mean "Losing my family made me become an emotional cripple"?

Yes. It describes the state of the speaker after the loss. That's why it has "left". It means "at the end of this experience I was ...". After this kind of ex

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