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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Hi,

_In the following sentence:''...we saw the buildings change colour , from a dark red to pink and purple. ...'',why is a used before '' dark red'' while it isn't used before pink and purple?How does this use affect the meaning?

_''Apamea is an ancient site on the bank of the Orantes River.''

My question is:A river has two banks and I think the sentence should be ''...on a bank of the ...''.

I don't understand why they use the bank instead of ''a bank'.

Thanks
  

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we saw the buildings change colour , from a dark red to pink and purple. -- The writer has imagined a number of different dark shades of red, and this is one of them, but he did not do so for the other colours . - The meaning is unchanged.

— Mister Micawber

  • we saw the buildings change colour , from a dark red to pink and purple.
  • -- The writer has imagined a number of different dark shades of red, and this is one of them, but he did not do so for the other colours .
  • - The meaning is unchanged.
  • Perhaps the reader gets a slightly more technicolor image.
  • ''.
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In the following sentence:''...we saw the buildings change colour , from a dark red to pink and purple. ...'',why is a used before '' dark red'' while it isn't used before pink and purple?-- The writer has imagined a number of different dark shades of red, and this is one of them, but he did not do so for the other colours.

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