Weird sentence structure "they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look"
The weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look. (Harry Potter, the very end of Chapter 2, https://www.teenreads.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-book-1/excerpt)
What does "the second" mean? What word does it relate to?
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raliev ... they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look. they seemed to vanish at the exact second that Harry ...
- raliev ...
- they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.
- they seemed to vanish at the exact second that Harry ...
- 'second' is a unit of time, like 'minute', 'day', 'week', and so on.
- We can use most units of time in the same way.
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raliev ... they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.
they seemed to vanish at the exact second that Harry ...
'second' is a unit of time, like 'minute', 'day', 'week', and so on.
We can use most units of time in the same way. These expressions answer the question "When?"
The minute (that) I started dri
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