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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Strange sentence
Why is a sentence I am reading written like this:
Thought you'd nipped y'smoking in't bud?
What does this even mean?
Thought you'd nipped y'smoking in't bud?
What does this even mean?
Top answer
e. I thought you had stopped smoking (implies soon after you started ). It appears to be an attempt to represent a dialect of English.
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- I thought you had stopped smoking (implies soon after you started ).
- It appears to be an attempt to represent a dialect of English.
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I thought you had nipped your smoking in the bud, i.e. I thought you had stopped smoking (implies soon after you started).
It appears to be an attempt to represent a dialect of English.
It appears to be an attempt to represent a dialect of English.
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