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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
What’s the purpose of ‘for’?
"You got there? You got Hermione's owl?"
"We must have crossed in midair. No sooner had I reached London than it became clear to me that the place I should be was the one I had just left. I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off you."
"It was you [that cried, ‘Harry! Harry,’ when I was losing my consciousness]."
"I feared I might be too late."
"You nearly were, I couldn't have kept him off the Stone much longer -"
"Not the Stone, boy, you - the effort involved nearly killed you. For one terrible moment there, I was afraid it had. As for the Stone, it has been destroyed."
(Harry Potter)
(1) I guess just ‘one terrible moment there’ can make an adverbial phrase as an absolute phrase, then what’s the purpose of ‘for’?
(2) Why the main clause has the past tense – was afraid?
(3) What’s the meaning of the highlighted sentence?
"We must have crossed in midair. No sooner had I reached London than it became clear to me that the place I should be was the one I had just left. I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off you."
"It was you [that cried, ‘Harry! Harry,’ when I was losing my consciousness]."
"I feared I might be too late."
"You nearly were, I couldn't have kept him off the Stone much longer -"
"Not the Stone, boy, you - the effort involved nearly killed you. For one terrible moment there, I was afraid it had. As for the Stone, it has been destroyed."
(Harry Potter)
(1) I guess just ‘one terrible moment there’ can make an adverbial phrase as an absolute phrase, then what’s the purpose of ‘for’?
(2) Why the main clause has the past tense – was afraid?
(3) What’s the meaning of the highlighted sentence?
Top answer
eipjoo (1) I guess just ‘one terrible moment there’ can make an adverbial phrase as an absolute phrase, then what’s the purpose of ‘for’? It is the preposition introducing the prepositional phrase which is serving as an adverb. eipjoo (2) Why does the main clause have the past tense – was afraid?
- eipjoo (1) I guess just ‘one terrible moment there’ can make an adverbial phrase as an absolute phrase, then what’s the purpose of ‘for’?
- It is the preposition introducing the prepositional phrase which is serving as an adverb.
- eipjoo (2) Why does the main clause have the past tense – was afraid?
- Because the event is in the past.
- eipjoo (3) What’s the meaning of the highlighted sentence?
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eipjoo(1) I guess just ‘one terrible moment there’ can make an adverbial phrase as an absolute phrase, then what’s the purpose of ‘for’?It is the preposition introducing the prepositional phrase which is serving as an adverb.
eipjoo(2) Why does the main clause h
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