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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
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"Quite Enough there"
There wasn't quite enough there to make your father out to be an unforgivable monster,
Could you tell me the second 'there' is what grammatically and semantically? Plus, could it be that the whole sentence means It's hard to make your father seem to be an unforgivable monster?
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anonymous Could you tell me the second 'there' is what grammatically and semantically? It's an adverb that means 'in that place'. It's used figuratively in your example to mean 'in what you have just said'.
- anonymous Could you tell me the second 'there' is what grammatically and semantically?
- It's an adverb that means 'in that place'.
- It's used figuratively in your example to mean 'in what you have just said'.
- anonymous Plus, could it be that the whole sentence means It's hard to make your father seem to be an unforgivable monster?
- Not the whole sentence.
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anonymousCould you tell me the second 'there' is what grammatically and semantically?
It's an adverb that means 'in that place'. It's used figuratively in your example to mean 'in what you have just said'.
anonymousPlus, could it be that the whole sentence means It's hard to make your father seem to be an unforgivable monster?
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