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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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Since the first dictionary was compiled by Samuel Johnson over two hundred years ago, it has been all too easy to fall back on the dictionary as the ultimate authority and pretend to let the matter rest there.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
1. I'd like to know if "over two hundred years" modifies "ago."
2. I'd like to know here what "pretend to let the matter rest there" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
1. I'd like to know if "over two hundred years" modifies "ago."
2. I'd like to know here what "pretend to let the matter rest there" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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1. I believe the phrase over two hundred years ago is used as an adverb to modify 'was completed'. 2.
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- I believe the phrase over two hundred years ago is used as an adverb to modify 'was completed'.
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- Ignore as if no longer important.
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1. I believe the phrase over two hundred years ago is used as an adverb to modify 'was completed'.
2. Ignore as if no longer important.
2. Ignore as if no longer important.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "over two hundred years" modifies "ago."No. "ago" is one of very few prepositions in English that occurs after its object. (I don't even know what the other one is or other ones are.) At least that's the explanation that was once made to me about "ago".
[ago ~ back] { [over ~ more than] 200 years }
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