We spent the whole..
We spent the whole afternoon rummaging through old photographs of Granny Mary, picking the best ones for her memorial service.
Can the sentence above be written like this:
We spent the whole afternoon rummaging through old photographs of Granny Mary _and we picked_ the best ones for her memorial service.
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Hasibrahman Can the sentence above be written like this: I think you are really asking whether the sentence can be written like that without changing the meaning at all . ) that the rummaging and the picking were happening at the same time, alternately. 'picking' describes something on-going and simultaneous with 'rummaging', but 'and we picked' just summarizes the final state of affairs somewhat clinically.
- Hasibrahman Can the sentence above be written like this: I think you are really asking whether the sentence can be written like that without changing the meaning at all .
- ) that the rummaging and the picking were happening at the same time, alternately.
- 'picking' describes something on-going and simultaneous with 'rummaging', but 'and we picked' just summarizes the final state of affairs somewhat clinically.
- CJ
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HasibrahmanCan the sentence above be written like this:
I think you are really asking whether the sentence can be written like that without changing the meaning at all.
You can rewrite 'picking' as 'and we picked', but then you lose the idea (or should I say "the feeling"?) that the rummaging and the picking were happening at the
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