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1. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.
what does not here modify? Which word does so much here modify? Is but here conjunction or preposition? Are they before & after but parallel?
2. If one of them was destroyed, it is difficult to restore it to the original shape, and which is a great lost to the country.
Why add and before which?
3. I attended junior and senior high school, public institutions in New York and New Jersey, just after the Second World War.
Why add comma before just like?
4. Sometimes I think how grateful I would be today if I had learned more back then about what really matters.
Can it reword as: ...about what really matters back then. Why use back then before about what really matters?
what does not here modify? Which word does so much here modify? Is but here conjunction or preposition? Are they before & after but parallel?
2. If one of them was destroyed, it is difficult to restore it to the original shape, and which is a great lost to the country.
Why add and before which?
3. I attended junior and senior high school, public institutions in New York and New Jersey, just after the Second World War.
Why add comma before just like?
4. Sometimes I think how grateful I would be today if I had learned more back then about what really matters.
Can it reword as: ...about what really matters back then. Why use back then before about what really matters?
Top answer
1. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time. -- No word.
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- It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.
- -- No word.
- boys' Is but here conjunction or preposition?
- -- I don't understand your question.
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1. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.
what does not here modify?-- so much
Which word does so much here modify?-- No word. It modifies 'having...boys'
Is but here c
what does not here modify?-- so much
Which word does so much here modify?-- No word. It modifies 'having...boys'
Is but here c
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