0
Rai9999 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

What does Gone mean here?

The paragraph :
The region's first synthetic hockey surface is sight to behold.Gone are the problems of being washed out for half the season.
I really couldn't understand the second sentence mean....
Could anyone tell me the meaning?
Thank you!
  

Top answer

The sentence is simply an inversion of the more usual word order. It means The problems of being washed out for half the season are now gone . In other words, the new hockey surface means there are no longer problems with being washed out.

— Blue Jay

  • The sentence is simply an inversion of the more usual word order.
  • It means The problems of being washed out for half the season are now gone .
  • In other words, the new hockey surface means there are no longer problems with being washed out.
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

5 Answers
0
The sentence is simply an inversion of the more usual word order. It means The problems of being washed out for half the season are now gone. In other words, the new hockey surface means there are no longer problems with being washed out.
0
0
Fronting the verb like this is a literary technique to add drama to the sentence.
A more mundane way to write it is thus.

The problems of being washed out for half the season are gone.

Clive
0
0
Hi Blue Jay
Thank you for your kind reply
May I ask what does "half the season" mean? I know nothing about sports I'm still a little bit confused. Thanks!
0
0
Many sports are normally played only at certain times of the year, and the section of the year when a particular sport is played is known as the season. The idea here is that during the part of the year when hockey would be played (I'm assuming this is referring to field hockey) the playing surface was too wet to play on about half the time.
0
0
Thank you so much Blue Jay !
Have a nice day!
0

Related Questions