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Kim Yi Tai Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
‘the sky a harsh blue’ (from 1984)
Hi!
‘Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.’ (from 1984, George Orwell)
‘the sky a harsh blue’, verb to be is omitted here, is it a kind of stylistic feature?
Many thanks,
K
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Yes. It is a style that is seen mostly in written English.
- Yes.
- It is a style that is seen mostly in written English.
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Kim Yi Tai‘the sky a harsh blue’, verb to be is omitted here, is it a kind of stylistic feature?
Yes. It is called elision. The result (the sky a harsh blue) is sometimes called a "small clause".
CJ
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