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Gingie Posted 20 years ago
This sentence is taken from a novel which is written by a famous American writer. The novel is chosen by the Ministry of Education (Malaysia) as Literature Text Book for Upper Secondary Schools in Malaysia.
“Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew wild, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves.”
Shouldn’t it be written this way?
“Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew wild, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods rose above the spike leaves.”
please.. (^_^)
Grammar
rised/rose ??
This sentence is taken from a novel which is written by a famous American writer. The novel is chosen by the Ministry of Education (Malaysia) as Literature Text Book for Upper Secondary Schools in Malaysia.
“Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew wild, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves.”
Shouldn’t it be written this way?
“Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew wild, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods rose above the spike leaves.”
please.. (^_^)
Top answer
If it were the whole pamaps grass they were talking about, then yes. However they are just describing the grass itself - the grass whose feathery rods are raised above the plants' spikey leaves. I would change spike to spikey in this sentence though.
- If it were the whole pamaps grass they were talking about, then yes.
- However they are just describing the grass itself - the grass whose feathery rods are raised above the plants' spikey leaves.
- I would change spike to spikey in this sentence though.
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If it were the whole pamaps grass they were talking about, then yes.
However they are just describing the grass itself - the grass whose feathery rods are raised above the plants' spikey leaves. I would change spike to spikey in this sentence though.
However they are just describing the grass itself - the grass whose feathery rods are raised above the plants' spikey leaves. I would change spike to spikey in this sentence though.
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1 i 00 “Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew wild, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods 01 u 00 raised 02 u 00 above the spike leaves.” 02 i 02 br
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00 This sentence is in perfectly good English. The feathery rods were raised above
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00 This sentence is in perfectly good English. The feathery rods were raised above
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0 Perhaps spiked leaves then? I don't know why but spike leaves sounds odd to me. . 0-
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Actually I think it's about the shape of the mentioned leaves. It could be rephrased as "The spike shaped leaves". It's literature after all so you can't expect everything to be done by the (grammar) book.
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Gingie... with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves.”No. You have a participle phrase modifying feathery rods, so you have to have a participle. raised is the past participle of raise; risen is the pas
Shouldn’t it be written this way?
... with feathery rods rose above the spike leaves.
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