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Monkey_D Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

there-goes-the-wedding

0(Ramona's aunt quarelled with her groom about the wedding.) 02br
01span00"Beezus and Ramona exchanged a "there-goes-the-wedding" look. 02span02br
00Please help me with the high-light sentence. What does it mean?00 02br
00Thanks so much.050010id75
  

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0It means they looked at each other as if to say "that's ruined the wedding!".0-
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0 I love Beverly Cleary's books!02br
00 The trick of hyphenating a string of words to form an adjective is often used in light, humorous writing. Sometimes the hyphenated string is carried to almost ridiculous lengths, which adds another "layer" to the humor. Unfortunately I can't think of any examples offhand. 0-
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0Thanks Mr.wordy 05002br
00I love Beverly Clasry's books too, Delmobile. We translated many of them in my country. 051010id111id23
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0One thing I love about her stuff is that my kids enjoy them as much as I did. The stuff that happens to the kids in the book still makes sense to kids today. It doesn't have to be full of things like Gameboys or Rollerblades or other more recent concepts to be enjoyable!0-

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