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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
pronoun (it/that)/ interpretation
The night before my husband had asked me if I wanted to cancel this shoot. I told him no. I had to do this. It didn't seem, at the time, that I'd ever feel better and I had to find a way to push past the pain. My husband had come in case I needed him. So had my youngest son. But when the shoot began, it was just me-standing all alone in the spotlight dressed in black. It was the first time I would shoot a video solo, without anyone else in the scene, and I had never felt so alone in my life. That was as it should have been because I was alone in my pain and there was no one else to blame for what I was feeling but me.
Q) I think the first underline "that" refers to "feeling alone in my life." But I had no idea what "it," the second underline, refers to.
Q2) What does "as" mean in the last sentence? "That was as it should have ...."
Q) I think the first underline "that" refers to "feeling alone in my life." But I had no idea what "it," the second underline, refers to.
Q2) What does "as" mean in the last sentence? "That was as it should have ...."
Top answer
" You have the right idea. ("never ... ) 1.
- " You have the right idea.
- ("never ...
- ) 1.
- "it" refers back to "that".
- 2.
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moon7296I think the first underline "that" refers to "feeling alone in my life."You have the right idea. ("never ... in my life" is one phrase, so strictly speaking "feeling alone in my life" is an incorrect extraction.)
1. "it" refers back to "that".
2. "as it should have been" means "how it should have been" or "the way (that) it should ha
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Q1) Or can't "as" roughly mean like?
Never feeling so alone in my life was like it should have been.
Q2) You said like the below. Then can't "it" be "that?" I.e., That was as that should have been .... (Is this simply very awkward because "that" was repeated?
Never feeling so alone in my life was like it should have been.
Q2) You said like the below. Then can't "it" be "that?" I.e., That was as that should have been .... (Is this simply very awkward because "that" was repeated?
GPY1. "it" refers b
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moon7296Q1) Or can't "as" roughly mean like?Yes. "as" reads better though.
moon7296Never feeling so alone in my life was like it should have been.If you want to explicitly write a sentence with "that" expanded, this would be better:
This feeling was as it should have been.
This is because "fee
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