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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Two questions one on the words "a passivity"
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I was looking at the Google Book Search and saw this:
I was looking at the Google Book Search and saw this:
Fear as a way of life: Mayan widows in rural Guatemala???: Linda Green - 1999 - 229 ???119 ??? Yet this sense of fatalism did not necessarily translate into a passivity among the group. A spirit of generosity existed among the women, ... ????? ????. - http://books.google.com/books?id=in7XbRARhGoC&dq=%22among+the+group&lr=&hl=ko - https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=print&continue=http://books.google.com/books%3Fop%3Dadd%26hl%3Dko%26sig%3DACfU3U0dOwPHGgrRFDzdvQdZoY2z3K6xWQ%26%26id%3Din7XbRARhGoC%26continue%3Dhttp://books.google.com/books%253Fq%253D%252522among%252Bthe%252Bgroup%2526hl%253Dko%2526lr%253D%2526sa%253DN%2526start%253D10%26hl%3Dko&hl=ko - http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:ISBN0231100337&id=in7XbRARhGoC&hl=ko Why is there the indefinite article "a" before the word "passivity" when I think it is hard to conceive of any situation that would be good(?) to think of it as a type of it? (I might not have phrased my question correctly.) Is this comma use done to allow a breathing space? He ran after the man and ran after him unscathed, by a road that hasn't been used before. |
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) to think of it as a type of it? ) Your phrasing is fine, but still we must presume that the author has in mind a 'sort of' passivity. It is allowed.
- ) to think of it as a type of it?
- ) Your phrasing is fine, but still we must presume that the author has in mind a 'sort of' passivity.
- It is allowed.
- He ran after the man and ran after him unscathed, by a road that hasn't been used before.
- -- No; it is to make clear that the prepositional phrase is a sentence adverb, not a modifier of 'unscathed'.
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Your phrasing is fine, but still we must presum
Why is there the indefinite article "a" before the word "passivity" when I think it is hard to conceive of any situation that would be good(?) to think of it as a type of it? (I might not have phrased my question correctly.) |
Your phrasing is fine, but still we must presum
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