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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

sentence(foreshadow)

“The bowl was perfect” foreshadows Andrea’s life after she found it.

Q) I'm not sure if the sentence above is understandable due to the underlined part. That means Andrea's life is changed after she found it(the bowl).
  

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It's hard to understand. " seems odd. It is unusual for a quoted sentence like "The bowl was perfect" to be the subject of that verb, and it's not very clear what it's supposed to mean.

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  • It's hard to understand.
  • " seems odd.
  • It is unusual for a quoted sentence like "The bowl was perfect" to be the subject of that verb, and it's not very clear what it's supposed to mean.
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It's hard to understand.

Amongst other things, "'The bowl was perfect' foreshadows ..." seems odd. It is unusual for a quoted sentence like "The bowl was perfect" to be the subject of that verb, and it's not very clear what it's supposed to mean.
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moon7296Q) I'm not sure if the sentence above is understandable due to the underlined part.
You are correct. It is not understandable.

I assume that "The Bowl was Perfect" is a title (a book?). You need capital letters for all titles.
Next "it" has a vague antecedent.
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Ah ok.. the quote itself is just like the one I quoted. And I meant "the bowl" by saying "it".
She said "The bowl was perfect" when she first saw the bowl. This is the context. So I tried to use the word "foreshadow" with the story of the context plus my thoughts.
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Then you need to say that it is a quote from the book.

Her words (thoughts) “The bowl was perfect” presage what Andrea’s life would be after she found it.
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