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Hello,

I was wondering how this sentence should be structured and puncutuated.

"The forest echoed with the noctunres of the whispering willows, their archiac wisdom strewn across the hillsides as if they were the discarded musings of Robert Frost."

Is this correct? The second half of the sentence (their archiac wisdom...) seems to be a phrase, not a full clause, so I wasn't sure.

Thanks.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Seems OK to me, except for the spelling of 'nocturnes' and 'archaic'.

(This is pretty turgid prose, LM; and I think Frost writes relatively light verse.)

LiquidMidnight · Answer

Thank you.

The misspellings are typos.

I decided to change "they" to "it" since the antecedent is actually "wisdom".

It's not prose though; it's actually an intro to a narrative. It's set in the forest, so I decided to use the Robert Frost comparison.

CalifJim · Answer

I would consider your punctuation correct, yes. <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' alt='Emotion: smile'/>

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