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Newguest Posted 15 years ago
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Spirit ...
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A certain guy who first was a good soldier and then a hitman thought about his wife who was killed a long time ago. In his mind every day it was his wife who kept him going.
He could never part with that image because in a visceral way it was the only shred of identity he had left. It was the one memory that kept alive the spirit of a young soldier, husband and father named John Carr. Not the assassin, not the killer. Just him, or who he used to be.
Do you think that the part "not the assassin, not the killer" refers to that "spirit"?
So the memory of his wife made that his spirit of when he was a soldier, husband and father was still alive. And not the spirit of the assassin and the killer, but just his spirit, the spirit of who he used to be.
Is it what that part says?
A certain guy who first was a good soldier and then a hitman thought about his wife who was killed a long time ago. In his mind every day it was his wife who kept him going.
He could never part with that image because in a visceral way it was the only shred of identity he had left. It was the one memory that kept alive the spirit of a young soldier, husband and father named John Carr. Not the assassin, not the killer. Just him, or who he used to be.
Do you think that the part "not the assassin, not the killer" refers to that "spirit"?
So the memory of his wife made that his spirit of when he was a soldier, husband and father was still alive. And not the spirit of the assassin and the killer, but just his spirit, the spirit of who he used to be.
Is it what that part says?
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Newguest the spirit of a young soldier, husband and father named John Carr. Not the assassin, not the killer. Just him, or who he used to be.
- Newguest the spirit of a young soldier, husband and father named John Carr.
- Not the assassin, not the killer.
- Just him, or who he used to be.
- I take it as the spirit of A , not the spirit of B .
- Or more precisely, the spirit of (A, not B).
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Newguestthe spirit of a young soldier, husband and father named John Carr. Not the assassin, not the killer. Just him, or who he used to be.I take it as the spirit of A, not the spirit of B.
Or more precisely, the spirit of (A, not B).
So I'm saying the bold refers to "a young soldier, husband and father."
In other w
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Just him, or who he used to be.
Does ",or" has the same meaning here as in the sentence "70kg, or just over 150lbs"?
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Just him, or who he used to be.
Does ",or" has the same meaning here as in the sentence "70kg, or just over 150lbs"?
Thanks
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NewguestThat's the way I take it! It's sort of an appositive - a clarification, or enhancement of the same statement.
Just him, or who he used to be.
Does ",or" has the same meaning here as in the sentence "70kg, or just over 150lbs"?
BTW, beware the tricky auxilliary verb. The "does" is inflected, and the main verb "to have" appears in
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