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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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In the sentence "Amid thunderclaps earsplitting as any in prairie boyhood, I stood atop the lookout on King George Terrace - drenched but excited as a kid."
I'm trying to understand 2 things here. The first one being "earsplitting as any in prairie boyhood". Amid means surrounded and earsplitting means very loud. So why don't we say Amid earsplitting thunderclaps? And why is it okay to put it after?
The second thing I don't understand is the rest of the sentence "as any in prairie boyhood" ... Surrounded by very loud thunderclaps like any prarie boyhood.... ? It don't get it.
Thank you!
I'm trying to understand 2 things here. The first one being "earsplitting as any in prairie boyhood". Amid means surrounded and earsplitting means very loud. So why don't we say Amid earsplitting thunderclaps? And why is it okay to put it after?
The second thing I don't understand is the rest of the sentence "as any in prairie boyhood" ... Surrounded by very loud thunderclaps like any prarie boyhood.... ? It don't get it.
Thank you!
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e. these thunderclaps were as loud as those that the author (or some imagined person) would have heard when a child living on the prairies (I assume).
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- these thunderclaps were as loud as those that the author (or some imagined person) would have heard when a child living on the prairies (I assume).
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The whole of "earsplitting as any in prairie boyhood" modifies "thunderclaps", with the same meaning "thunderclaps as earsplitting as any in prairie boyhood"; i.e. these thunderclaps were as loud as those that the author (or some imagined person) would have heard when a child living on the prairies (I assume).
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