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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

personification?

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00I don't know these are casesof personification but what I am trying to ask you is whether it is OK to use unnatural words or ones that dont' seem to fit based on my knowledge of the words usage in writing under different situations like business, academic, informal, etc.02br
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001. Hi, I saw a bird chirping on the electrical pole and while listening to the melody, I sort of saw it burping, and somehow, what it burped out landed on my friend's hat -- whew, whew.02br
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00I am not so sure 'burping' can be used with birds. Burping can be used with humans.02br
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002.I was walking my favourite road and saw a big willow tree streching its branches and one of its branches smacked right into my cane.02br
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00I am not sure about the use of 'stretching'. It seems natural with humans and what they do, but with an inanimate?? object? 02br
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00Can those two sentences be used in academic, or business, or informal writing situations? 0-
  

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02br 00This is a difficult area to tread, Anon. Sometimes you can do that, and sometimes not-- often it depends on your general facility with the language. 02br 02br 01i 00Burp out02i 00 is not what people do either, if you mean 01i 00vomit 02i 00or01i 00 throw up02i 00.

  • 02br 00This is a difficult area to tread, Anon.
  • Sometimes you can do that, and sometimes not-- often it depends on your general facility with the language.
  • 02br 02br 01i 00Burp out02i 00 is not what people do either, if you mean 01i 00vomit 02i 00or01i 00 throw up02i 00.
  • But in any case, birds and people can both do those things.
  • And a tree 01i 00stretching02i 00 its limbs sounds a pleasant conception to me.
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00This is a difficult area to tread, Anon. Sometimes you can do that, and sometimes not-- often it depends on your general facility with the language. Definitely save it for informal and literary writing.02br
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01i00Burp out02i00 is not what people do either, if you mean 01i00vomit 02i00or01i00 thro

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