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OttoJ Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Of round-arm length
If a tree is as big as you can embrace it with two full arms, how would you describe it?:
My attempt:
eg When the Tom Emperor was in power, a grain grew in the court in the evening, which in the morning was of embracing thickness/as large as your two full arms can circle/of embracing perimeter.
My attempt:
eg When the Tom Emperor was in power, a grain grew in the court in the evening, which in the morning was of embracing thickness/as large as your two full arms can circle/of embracing perimeter.
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I'd use: " as large as your two full arms can circle" . The meaning of "embracing" wouldn't be immediately obvious to me without more context.
- I'd use: " as large as your two full arms can circle" .
- The meaning of "embracing" wouldn't be immediately obvious to me without more context.
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I'd use: "as large as your two full arms can circle".
The meaning of "embracing" wouldn't be immediately obvious to me without more context.
The meaning of "embracing" wouldn't be immediately obvious to me without more context.
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When the Tom Emperor was in power, the seed of a tree was planted in the court one evening and by the morning the tree had grown so large that a man's arms could barely encircle it.
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