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Stenka25 Posted 16 years ago
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What does "do" represent?
The below sentence is from the book, "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING."
What I want to know is what does 'do' stand for?
It seems that in a quick glance 'do' represent 'pass through,' but it shows up in the following. But in the context, I cannot find any other alternative.
What do you think of this?
When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass.
What I want to know is what does 'do' stand for?
It seems that in a quick glance 'do' represent 'pass through,' but it shows up in the following. But in the context, I cannot find any other alternative.
What do you think of this?
When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass.
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Stenka25 When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass. This is not a complete sentence. The clause after the conjunction "but" is a fragment.
- Stenka25 When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass.
- This is not a complete sentence.
- The clause after the conjunction "but" is a fragment.
- Here is a version we can work with: If we do not take them one at a time and them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, we will be left with a big backlog of unfinished tasks at the end of the day.
- Now we can examine the clause where grains is the subject and do is the verb: " as do the grains of sand passing through the neck of the hourglass " In this clause, the position of the verb is unusual, but it is still the main verb of the clause.
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Stenka25When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass.This is not a complete sentence. The clause after the conjunction "but" is
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Hi,
The below sentence is from the book, "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING."
What I want to know is what does 'do' stand for?
It seems that in a quick glance 'do' represent 'pass through,' Yes, 'pass through slowly and evenly' but it shows up in the following. But in the context, I cannot find any other alternative.
What do you think of this?
W
The below sentence is from the book, "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING."
What I want to know is what does 'do' stand for?
It seems that in a quick glance 'do' represent 'pass through,' Yes, 'pass through slowly and evenly' but it shows up in the following. But in the context, I cannot find any other alternative.
What do you think of this?
W
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