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Cadzao Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Need help with Wright again

0Frank L. Wright wrote:02br
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00"A house that has character stands a good chance of growing more valuable as it grows older while a hous in the prevailing mode, whatever that mode may be, is soon out of fashion, stale, and unprofitable."02br
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00"Buildings like people must first be sincere, must be true and then withal as gracious and loveable as may be."02br
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00"01b01font00Above all, integrity. The machine is normal tool of our civilization, give it work that it can do well --- nothing is of greater importance. To do this will be to formulate new industrial ideas, sadly needed.02font02b00"02br
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00I don't get what the author means by the red paragraph. Would you please explain it?02br
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0It sounds like you skipped at least one paragraph between your first two paragraphs and the red one. 0-

— Avangi

  • 0It sounds like you skipped at least one paragraph between your first two paragraphs and the red one.
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0It sounds like you skipped at least one paragraph between your first two paragraphs and the red one. Give me at least a fighting chance!0-
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0Hi Avangi,02br
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00I did not skip any paragraph between them. All of these paragraphs, including the red one, are from an article (written by Wright) in the Architectural Record which is reprinted in the book The Humanities In Contemporary Life (edited by Robert F. Davidson, Sarah Herndon, J. Russell Reaver, and William Ruff; published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.;
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0Search for the text on the net and provide the links, pls:02br
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00V. Bring out the nature of the materials, let their nature intimately into your scheme. 02br
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0You missed an article:02br
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00Above all, integrity. The machine is 01b00the02b00 normal tool of our civilization,02br
00 give it work that it can do well --- nothing is of greater02br
00 importance. To do this will be to formulate new industrial ideas,02br
00 sadly needed.02br
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0Sorry, Cadzao. It certainly is baffling. The first two paragraphs connect to each other, but the red one is definitely off the wall. It needs some kind of transition, or introduction. Even if he's attempting to draw some kind of parallel between houses and machines, you can't begin a new paragraph and a new idea with, "Above all, integrity." It would certainly make a good motto, perhaps in
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01cite10Cadzao12cite11b11font10Above all, integrity. The machine is [the] normal tool of our civilization, give it work that it can do well --- nothing is of greater importance. To do this will be to formulate new industrial ideas, sadly needed.12font12b12blockquote
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