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Stephenlearner Posted 14 years ago
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Sagged against the wall
Hi,
Can you explain what the words in bold mean?
Overcome with fatigue, Peter sagged against the wall of the shed, still clutching his coalscuttle.
Does it mean Peter, originally standing against the wall, now began to drop along the wall to the ground ?
Thank you for answer.
Can you explain what the words in bold mean?
Overcome with fatigue, Peter sagged against the wall of the shed, still clutching his coalscuttle.
Does it mean Peter, originally standing against the wall, now began to drop along the wall to the ground ?
Thank you for answer.
Top answer
stephenlearner Does it mean Peter, originally standing against the wall, now began to drop along the wall to the ground ? Yes. Something like that.
- stephenlearner Does it mean Peter, originally standing against the wall, now began to drop along the wall to the ground ?
- Yes.
- Something like that.
- I would say not that he began to drop but that he stood against the wall in a way that suggested he had dropped part of the way to the ground.
- He was not actually dropping to the ground, nor even beginning to.
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stephenlearnerDoes it mean Peter, originally standing against the wall, now began to drop along the wall to the ground ?Yes. Something like that. I would say not that he began to drop but that he stood against the wall in a way that suggested he had dropped part of the way to the ground. He was not actually dropping to the ground, nor even beginning to. I
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