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Chivalry Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Question about this sentence

This is a sentence I read from Reader's Digest:"The cold, dark night stretched dauntingly ahead.",

my question is, why the word "ahead" here necessarily?

Will it make sense if I drop it in the sentence?

Thanks for your help at it.
  

Top answer

'Ahead' makes it clear that the speaker is considering the night from the vantage point (or perhaps in this case from the 'disvantage' point) of its beginning. Dropping it makes the sentence a bit odd.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Ahead' makes it clear that the speaker is considering the night from the vantage point (or perhaps in this case from the 'disvantage' point) of its beginning.
  • Dropping it makes the sentence a bit odd.
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'Ahead' makes it clear that the speaker is considering the night from the vantage point (or perhaps in this case from the 'disvantage' point) of its beginning. Dropping it makes the sentence a bit odd.
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Mister Micawber'Ahead' makes it clear that the speaker is considering the night from the vantage point (or perhaps in this case from the 'disvantage' point) of its beginning. Dropping it makes the sentence a bit odd.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it at all.

By considering the night from the vantage point you mean she's describing it in a perspect
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No: that's why I coined the antonym 'disvantage point'.
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Mister MicawberNo: that's why I coined the antonym 'disvantage point'.
I still don't get it,

what does this sentence have to do with her taking an advantage or not?
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The words cold, dark, stretched and dauntingly all suggest that the speaker has an unhappy view of the coming night.

(We are talking about vantage/disvantage, not advantage/disadvantage.)
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