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Mark Twain’s autobiography
Hi,
Below is a quote from Mark Twain’s autobiography.
What becomes of the multitudinous photographs which one's mind takes of people? Out of the million which my mental camera must have taken of this first and closest friend, only one clear and strongly defined one of early date remains. It dates back forty-seven years; she was forty years old then, and I was eight. She held me by the hand, and we were kneeling by the bedside of my brother, two years older than I, who lay dead, and the tears were flowing down her cheeks unchecked. And she was moaning. That dumb sign of anguish was perhaps new to me, since it made upon me a very strong impression--an impression which holds its place still with the picture which it helped to intensify and make memorable.
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Among the two underlined ‘which’s, the first ‘which’ should refer to ‘an impression’. What does the second ‘which’ refer to? And the ‘it’. What does this ‘it’ refer to?
Below is a quote from Mark Twain’s autobiography.
What becomes of the multitudinous photographs which one's mind takes of people? Out of the million which my mental camera must have taken of this first and closest friend, only one clear and strongly defined one of early date remains. It dates back forty-seven years; she was forty years old then, and I was eight. She held me by the hand, and we were kneeling by the bedside of my brother, two years older than I, who lay dead, and the tears were flowing down her cheeks unchecked. And she was moaning. That dumb sign of anguish was perhaps new to me, since it made upon me a very strong impression--an impression which holds its place still with the picture which it helped to intensify and make memorable.
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Among the two underlined ‘which’s, the first ‘which’ should refer to ‘an impression’. What does the second ‘which’ refer to? And the ‘it’. What does this ‘it’ refer to?
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Hi, Below is a quote from Mark Twain’s autobiography. What becomes of the multitudinous photographs which one's mind takes of people? Out of the million which my mental camera must have taken of this first and closest friend, only one clear and strongly defined one of early date remains.
- Hi, Below is a quote from Mark Twain’s autobiography.
- What becomes of the multitudinous photographs which one's mind takes of people?
- Out of the million which my mental camera must have taken of this first and closest friend, only one clear and strongly defined one of early date remains.
- It dates back forty-seven years; she was forty years old then, and I was eight.
- She held me by the hand, and we were kneeling by the bedside of my brother, two years older than I, who lay dead, and the tears were flowing down her cheeks unchecked.
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Hi,
Below is a quote from Mark Twain’s autobiography.
What becomes of the multitudinous photographs which one's mind takes of people? Out of the million which my mental camera must have taken of this first and closest friend, only one clear and strongly defined one of early date remains. It dates back forty-seven years; she w
Below is a quote from Mark Twain’s autobiography.
What becomes of the multitudinous photographs which one's mind takes of people? Out of the million which my mental camera must have taken of this first and closest friend, only one clear and strongly defined one of early date remains. It dates back forty-seven years; she w
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