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Moon7296 Posted 10 years ago
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It was full of all sorts of things that you find in barns: ladders, grindstones, pitchforks, monkey wrenches, scythes, lawn mowers, snow shovels, ax handles, milk pails, water buckets, empty grain sacks, and rusty rat traps. It was kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in.
Q) Can the underlined part be rephrased? I can't see how the sentence is structured.
Q) Can the underlined part be rephrased? I can't see how the sentence is structured.
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It should read "It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in". I like that kind of music -> It was the kind of music that I like Swallows like to build their nests in that kind of barn -> It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in A "swallow" is a type of bird, if that's confusing you.
- It should read "It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in".
- I like that kind of music -> It was the kind of music that I like Swallows like to build their nests in that kind of barn -> It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in A "swallow" is a type of bird, if that's confusing you.
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It should read "It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in".
I like that kind of music -> It was the kind of music that I like
Swallows like to build their nests in that kind of barn -> It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in
A "swallow" is a type of bird, if that's confusing you.
I like that kind of music -> It was the kind of music that I like
Swallows like to build their nests in that kind of barn -> It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in
A "swallow" is a type of bird, if that's confusing you.
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