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MountainHiker Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
What Is Wrong With This Text
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What is wrong with the text in the following picture? When trying to answer this question, think about the grammar and logic.
Here's a picture of the drowning machine, where several people have died.
It looks deceptively calm doesn't it.
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What is wrong with the text in the following picture? When trying to answer this question, think about the grammar and logic.
Here's a picture of the drowning machine, where several people have died.
It looks deceptively calm doesn't it.
I created and own the copyrights to these photographs.
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1. "Risking certain death" doesn't work because you can only risk your life or another person's life but not death. Of course you can say "risking being drowned/killed etc".
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- "Risking certain death" doesn't work because you can only risk your life or another person's life but not death.
- Of course you can say "risking being drowned/killed etc".
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- For me, "submerged weir" sounds weird because it seems to imply that the weir has not always been submerged.
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1. "Risking certain death" doesn't work because you can only risk your life or another person's life but not death. Of course you can say "risking being drowned/killed etc".
2. For me, "submerged weir" sounds weird because it seems to imply that the weir has not always been submerged. It's ok to say "submerged village/grave/cave etc because all these were probably not submerged at the
2. For me, "submerged weir" sounds weird because it seems to imply that the weir has not always been submerged. It's ok to say "submerged village/grave/cave etc because all these were probably not submerged at the
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#2 is actually fine. In my mind I was thinking about the eddy formed by the weir rather than about the structure iself.
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Ivanhr1. "Risking certain death" doesn't work because you can only risk your life or another person's life but not death. Of course you can say "risking being drowned/killed etc".You were close. Certain death means death with no uncertainty. Risking something means that there is uncertainty. So how you can risk certain death? Is it or is it not certain? Will
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Risking certain death ... i see no logic there what does that even mean ? nothing
Escape impossible ...well no need to say it.. when you are dead you dont try anymore anything.
Escape impossible ...well no need to say it.. when you are dead you dont try anymore anything.
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"The drowning machine" could be understood as a machine which is going underwater itself.
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