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Masanori Takaoka Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

recognize oneself

The boy who was sitting next to me in class accidentally dropped his sketch pad. It turns out he’s really talented at drawing portraits. They’re so good that I could recognize myself in all of them.

What does " I could recognize myself in all of them" mean?
  

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The speaker could identify the person in the portraits as himself or herself.

  • The speaker could identify the person in the portraits as himself or herself.
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The speaker could identify the person in the portraits as himself or herself.
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Hi

I think I would go slightly further and say: the artist, in drawing the pictures, had shown something about me that I knew to be true

There are two meanings here. You may go to the police after a crime and recognise, in one of the photos that they show you, the person who attacked you

Or you can go to an art gallery and, looking at one of the pictures - even though i

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