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Candle scarf 55 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

The noun the noun

"The way the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire"

There two the(s) between two nouns, what kind of grammar in this sentence and what is the meaning of it. Thank you.

  

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It presumably means: "The way in which / that the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire" but this is a noun phrase and not a complete sentence. Please provide more context. If it is a fragment of a sentence, please post the whole sentence.

  • It presumably means: "The way in which / that the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire" but this is a noun phrase and not a complete sentence.
  • Please provide more context.
  • If it is a fragment of a sentence, please post the whole sentence.
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It presumably means:

"The way in which / that the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire"

but this is a noun phrase and not a complete sentence.

Please provide more context. If it is a fragment of a sentence, please post the whole sentence.

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candle scarf 55what kind of grammar in this sentence

It is incorrect grammar. The sentence should be:

The way the sky looked at sunset was like a sheet of fire.
candle scarf 55There two the(s) between two nouns

There is a relative pronoun omitted.

The way [that] the sky looked at sunset was like 

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