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Heralding Heretic Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Sentence structure

greetings and salutations,

I'm struggling with the following sentence:

As it is so often portrayed in feel good movies where just past rock-bottom there only lies sunshine and prosperity.

I have the feeling that something is askew with the second part of it, but I am not really sure.

Any help? Thanks.
  

Top answer

This is not a complete sentence, These are only subordinate clauses. You could say eg As is so often portrayed in feel-good movies, just past rock-bottom there lies only sunshine and prosperity. I've added a few other edits.

— Clive

  • This is not a complete sentence, These are only subordinate clauses.
  • You could say eg As is so often portrayed in feel-good movies, just past rock-bottom there lies only sunshine and prosperity.
  • I've added a few other edits.
  • Clive
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This is not a complete sentence, These are only subordinate clauses.

You could say
eg As is so often portrayed in feel-good movies, just past rock-bottom there lies only sunshine and prosperity.

I've added a few other edits.
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Thank you for replying. It does make more sense now. I see you have removed the adverb only and added it in front of sunshine as an adjective. I assume it fits better there because it relates more to sunshine and prosperity than to lies?The positioning of adverbs still tend to confuse me.

I do wonder why you omitted 'it' from the first part of the sentence. Is it because it doesn't make a
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Thank you for replying. It does make more sense now. I see you have removed the adverb only and added it in front of sunshine as an adjective. I assume it fits better there because it relates more to sunshine and prosperity than to lies? Yes

The positioning of adverbs still tend to confuse me.

I do wonder why you omitted 'it' from the fi
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