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Stenka25 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Three long and meandering questions
three long and meandering questions
The passage below comes from a blog of a mom (building up a family castle in a cyber space, thus, Sandy's Castle).
https://sandyscastle.wordpress.com/tag/homemade-christmas/
I was waiting and waiting for a day ?where I had the kids and it wasn’t raining. Such a day did not materialise until a day Stuart was off when ?the rain broke for two hours in the afternoon and we just managed to ?get our wreath walk in before the rain came back on.
I'd like to raise three questions regarding the three underlined parts.
First, can 'where' be replaced by 'when' because 'a day' is the precedent of 'where'? If I wrote it myself, I would put 'when' not 'where.'
(Do you agree with me?)
But I'm not going to press my grammatical view here.
I want to ask you if there is any purpose when the writer of this blog used 'WHERE' instead of 'WHEN.'
Second, does 'broke' can be exchanged with 'stopped'?
Last and hardest, when my eyes passed this part, I could not make any sense of it. With repeated reading I made an idea of myself.
When the rain stopped, the author took her kids and husband to walk into the woods to get things to make their wreath for last Christmas.
When the writer said 'get our wreath walk in' she meant 'take a walk to get stuffs for the wreath.'
(Am I right in this line of thinking?)
One truly last thing, even if I am right, I still can not figure out why there should be 'in.'
Is the sentence not valid without it? If it is what is the purpose and meaning of it?
If the sentence is valid without it the same question remains (to me).
I'd be obliged if you'd give me your reply for this long and meandering question.
Regards.
The passage below comes from a blog of a mom (building up a family castle in a cyber space, thus, Sandy's Castle).
https://sandyscastle.wordpress.com/tag/homemade-christmas/
I was waiting and waiting for a day ?where I had the kids and it wasn’t raining. Such a day did not materialise until a day Stuart was off when ?the rain broke for two hours in the afternoon and we just managed to ?get our wreath walk in before the rain came back on.
I'd like to raise three questions regarding the three underlined parts.
First, can 'where' be replaced by 'when' because 'a day' is the precedent of 'where'? If I wrote it myself, I would put 'when' not 'where.'
(Do you agree with me?)
But I'm not going to press my grammatical view here.
I want to ask you if there is any purpose when the writer of this blog used 'WHERE' instead of 'WHEN.'
Second, does 'broke' can be exchanged with 'stopped'?
Last and hardest, when my eyes passed this part, I could not make any sense of it. With repeated reading I made an idea of myself.
When the rain stopped, the author took her kids and husband to walk into the woods to get things to make their wreath for last Christmas.
When the writer said 'get our wreath walk in' she meant 'take a walk to get stuffs for the wreath.'
(Am I right in this line of thinking?)
One truly last thing, even if I am right, I still can not figure out why there should be 'in.'
Is the sentence not valid without it? If it is what is the purpose and meaning of it?
If the sentence is valid without it the same question remains (to me).
I'd be obliged if you'd give me your reply for this long and meandering question.
Regards.
Top answer
' Strictly it's wrong, but people misuse "where" a lot in casual contexts. Stenka25 Second, can 'broke' can be exchanged with 'stopped'? It means that the heavy rain stopped, and gave relief.
- ' Strictly it's wrong, but people misuse "where" a lot in casual contexts.
- Stenka25 Second, can 'broke' can be exchanged with 'stopped'?
- It means that the heavy rain stopped, and gave relief.
- ") Stenka25 When the writer said 'get our wreath walk in Apparently, the "wreath walk" is their family tradition.
- It is not a common expression.
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Stenka25I want to ask you if there is any purpose when the writer of this blog used 'WHERE' instead of 'WHEN.'Strictly it's wrong, but people misuse "where" a lot in casual contexts.
Stenka25Second, can 'broke'It means that the heavy rain stopped, and gave relief. (Similacanbe exchanged with 'stopped'?
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