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Weeklyjump Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
One set of eyes
Hello
Does "one set of eyes" mean just one eye, or two eyes a person has?
I encountered a sentence "...one set of eyes was half-closed..., the other set wide." I always felt “one set” means a group of something. Have I been wrong?
Thank you
Taki
Does "one set of eyes" mean just one eye, or two eyes a person has?
I encountered a sentence "...one set of eyes was half-closed..., the other set wide." I always felt “one set” means a group of something. Have I been wrong?
Thank you
Taki
Top answer
Without the full context it's impossible to say.
- Without the full context it's impossible to say.
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I don't think it's impossible to say. There is no way that "a set of eyes" is one eye.
There are at least two creatures here, or one creature with at least four eyes.
There are at least two creatures here, or one creature with at least four eyes.
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Hello
The below is the sentence that contains the expression I'm perplexed with.
As she said that, Dona Lourdes’s arm appeared with the fringes of an 18th century costume, her face superimposed against another, a longer, paler with powder face rouged in the apples in the fashion of the time, sneering, so that one set of eyes was half-closed with bottled contempt, the other set
The below is the sentence that contains the expression I'm perplexed with.
As she said that, Dona Lourdes’s arm appeared with the fringes of an 18th century costume, her face superimposed against another, a longer, paler with powder face rouged in the apples in the fashion of the time, sneering, so that one set of eyes was half-closed with bottled contempt, the other set
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Okay, two faces. Dona's and whatever that "longer, paler with powder face" was - is this a ghost story?
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