"As dusk crept oer England, it seemed as if the match would have to be suspended for darkness. A cruel, truncated joke of a Monday after this towering Sunday."
1. Could I know if "towering Sunday" in this content mean "the match stretched across an entire Sunday carrying forward into Monday."?
2. Could you help me make corrections on "The match stretched across an entire Sunday carrying forward into Monday."? I'd like to make sure this question I asked is gramatically correct. Thank you.
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Tinanam
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1. 'Towering' just means ' great, very impressive', I think. 2.
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1.
'Towering' just means ' great, very impressive', I think.
2.
A tennis match could not last so long: you have assigned it a length of 12 hours or so.
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1. 'Towering' just means ' great, very impressive', I think. 2. A tennis match could not last so long: you have assigned it a length of 12 hours or so.
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"As dusk crept over England, it seemed as if the match would have to be suspended for darkness. A cruel, truncated joke of a Monday after this towering Sunday. But then, with thunderclap sunddenness, it was over. Nadal won and crumbl