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Spacewater Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

What does it mean by recount in this setence

The following article, written for the Times two weeks after the 1964 muder it recounts, earned Gansberg an award for excellence from the Newpaper Reporters Association of New York.

recounts - noun- count again.

I don't understand what the writer meant by muder it recounts
  

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It's probably murder (a killing), not muder . To recount is to tell about, to give the details of, or to report on. The article was written after the murder that it reports on.

  • It's probably murder (a killing), not muder .
  • To recount is to tell about, to give the details of, or to report on.
  • The article was written after the murder that it reports on.
  • CJ
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It's probably murder (a killing), not muder.

To recount is to tell about, to give the details of, or to report on.

The article was written after the murder that it reports on.

CJ

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