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Cat fold 525 Posted 8 years ago
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The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard

I came across the sentence below on Collins Dictionary:

The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard.

Does this sentence mean "the first lines of the poem use a verse plagiarized from a billboard"?

  

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cat fold 525 I came across the sentence below on Collins Dictionary: The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard. Does this sentence mean "the first lines of the poem use a verse plagiarized from a billboard"? Yes.

  • cat fold 525 I came across the sentence below on Collins Dictionary: The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard.
  • Does this sentence mean "the first lines of the poem use a verse plagiarized from a billboard"?
  • Yes.
  • 'use' or 'are'.
  • CJ
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cat fold 525

I came across the sentence below on Collins Dictionary:

The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard.

Does this sentence mean "the first lines of the poem use a verse plagiarized from a billboard"?

Yes. 'use' or 'are'.

CJ

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