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SheltieBites Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Sink Over
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/cambodias-up-and-coming-seaside-towns/2011/05/05/AFynes7G_story.html
"As the sun sank over the tree-lined Kampong Bay River, Kampot, a town on Cambodia’s southern coast, stirred to life."
How does the sun sink over something?
"As the sun sank over the tree-lined Kampong Bay River, Kampot, a town on Cambodia’s southern coast, stirred to life."
How does the sun sink over something?
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It is the standard English phrase for sundown at a place (here, the river).
- It is the standard English phrase for sundown at a place (here, the river).
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It is the standard English phrase for sundown at a place (here, the river).
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Does "the sun sank over the river" mean (1) the sun went from above the river to one side of the river, or (2) the process of the sunset was above (hence over) the river?
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From the writer's viewpoint, the sun sank below the horizon beyond the river.
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