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Samuraigirl Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
the decades or decades
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For foreign photographers, London was often made up of a cast of characters whom they often knew before they arrived, through the received ideas that photographic reproduction creates. Towards the end of the mid-century moment, new characters emerged: the punks became typical images of London. The repeated appearance across [the decades] of particular types of people suggests that such figures embody (or are seen to embody) London’s spirit of place.
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My question is, why ‘the decades’, not ‘decades’?
Does this ‘the’ indicate something like the years from 1951 to when the punks appeared?
Could we say ‘across decades’ is this sentence?
Also, I'm not sure of the meaning, particularly the 'across' part.
Does this mean 'particular types of people have appeared every some decades'?
Or 'particular types of people have appeared and lasted for decades'?
Hope your reply!
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For foreign photographers, London was often made up of a cast of characters whom they often knew before they arrived, through the received ideas that photographic reproduction creates. Towards the end of the mid-century moment, new characters emerged: the punks became typical images of London. The repeated appearance across [the decades] of particular types of people suggests that such figures embody (or are seen to embody) London’s spirit of place.
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My question is, why ‘the decades’, not ‘decades’?
Does this ‘the’ indicate something like the years from 1951 to when the punks appeared?
Could we say ‘across decades’ is this sentence?
Also, I'm not sure of the meaning, particularly the 'across' part.
Does this mean 'particular types of people have appeared every some decades'?
Or 'particular types of people have appeared and lasted for decades'?
Hope your reply!
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I think that part is saying that generally (without referring to any specific era) you get one type of person in one decade, and then another type of person in some other decade. This has probably dictated the use of "across the decades". "across decades" would sound more as if the same type of person lasted for decades.
- I think that part is saying that generally (without referring to any specific era) you get one type of person in one decade, and then another type of person in some other decade.
- This has probably dictated the use of "across the decades".
- "across decades" would sound more as if the same type of person lasted for decades.
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I think that part is saying that generally (without referring to any specific era) you get one type of person in one decade, and then another type of person in some other decade. This has probably dictated the use of "across the decades". "across decades" would sound more as if the same type of person lasted for decades.
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