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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analysis of a sentence #2
A sorcerer, the protagonist got into his best friend Luke's dream about "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
He stepped down into the white rabbit hole, carrying Luke fainted, to evade a invincible Fire Angel, it chased after them, and a Jabberwock went after it.
They all now fall through the tunnel.
The whiffling, the wailing, and the burbling suddenly echoed down the shaft, along with hissing, scraping, and occasional snarls. The two beasts came together and tore at each other, eyes like dying suns, claws like bayonets, forming a hellish mandala in the pale light which now reached them from below. While this produced a round of activity too near at hand for me to feel entirely at ease, it did serve to slow them to the point where I felt I need not risk an ill-suited spell and an awkward maneuver to emerge from the tunnel in one piece.
["Blood of Amber" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if "to emerge" adjectively modifies "maneuver" and it means "in order to."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He stepped down into the white rabbit hole, carrying Luke fainted, to evade a invincible Fire Angel, it chased after them, and a Jabberwock went after it.
They all now fall through the tunnel.
The whiffling, the wailing, and the burbling suddenly echoed down the shaft, along with hissing, scraping, and occasional snarls. The two beasts came together and tore at each other, eyes like dying suns, claws like bayonets, forming a hellish mandala in the pale light which now reached them from below. While this produced a round of activity too near at hand for me to feel entirely at ease, it did serve to slow them to the point where I felt I need not risk an ill-suited spell and an awkward maneuver to emerge from the tunnel in one piece.
["Blood of Amber" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if "to emerge" adjectively modifies "maneuver" and it means "in order to."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" No. It modifies "risk", so it is adverbial in nature. It's an infinitive of purpose, so "to" can be expressed as "in order to", just as you said.
- " No.
- It modifies "risk", so it is adverbial in nature.
- It's an infinitive of purpose, so "to" can be expressed as "in order to", just as you said.
- CJ
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "to emerge" adjectively modifies "maneuver" and it means "in order to."No. It modifies "risk", so it is adverbial in nature. It's an infinitive of purpose, so "to" can be expressed as "in order to", just as you said.
CJ
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