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Dileepa dharmasiri Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

To paraphrase a sentence to understand it

Please help me to get insight of following sentence. I know every words meaning individually, but the thing is I can't understand what is saying in the sentence. Please paraphrase following sentence and give the meaning of it in simpler format if possible.

Over a century ago, Harper's Weekly commented that advertisements were 'a true mirror of life, a sort of fossil history from which the future chronicler, if all other historical monuments were to be lost, might fully and graphically rewrite the history of our time'


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If every other form of historical reference was lost, and all you had was a number of advertisements from a particular time, you could still read / look at them and know what the society was like at that time. For example, if you were to look at advertisements from the 1940s you would see the way that family life, particularly life for women, was different to today. It's just a way of saying that advertisements change over time and are a useful historical source.

— David Hatton

  • If every other form of historical reference was lost, and all you had was a number of advertisements from a particular time, you could still read / look at them and know what the society was like at that time.
  • For example, if you were to look at advertisements from the 1940s you would see the way that family life, particularly life for women, was different to today.
  • It's just a way of saying that advertisements change over time and are a useful historical source.
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If every other form of historical reference was lost, and all you had was a number of advertisements from a particular time, you could still read / look at them and know what the society was like at that time. For example, if you were to look at advertisements from the 1940s you would see the way that family life, particularly life for women, was different to today. It's just a way of saying

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