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Grammarshammer Posted 19 years ago
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which one of these 3 sentences is the bestest?
Which one of these is the best?
After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma’s big Oak tree, taking refuge in its shade.
After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree, where I took refuge in its shade.
After this, a brief wave of ecstay passwed over my body before I stubled over to Grandma's big Oak tree and took refuge in its shade.
After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma’s big Oak tree, taking refuge in its shade.
After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree, where I took refuge in its shade.
After this, a brief wave of ecstay passwed over my body before I stubled over to Grandma's big Oak tree and took refuge in its shade.
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Grammarshammer Which one of these is the best? After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma’s big Oak tree, taking refuge in its shade. After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree, where I took refuge in its shade.
- Grammarshammer Which one of these is the best?
- After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma’s big Oak tree, taking refuge in its shade.
- After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree, where I took refuge in its shade.
- After this, a brief wave of ecstay passwed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree and took refuge in its shade.
- All of those are correct, but in the first sentence it seems you stumble and take refuge at the same time.
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Grammarshammer
Which one of these is the best?
After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma’s big Oak tree, taking refuge in its shade.
After this, a brief wave of ecstasy passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree, where I took refuge in its shade.
After this,
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With the fix of "stumbled" as noted above, they are all fine. I prefer either 2 or 3, but neither of them over the other.
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After this, a brief wave of ecstasy had passed over my body before I stumbled over to Grandma's big Oak tree and took refuge under leaf's shade.
Can I say in a such way?
Can I say in a such way?
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I don't like the past perfect "had passed" following a phrase like "after this." The past perfect is used to show what happened before not after. It doesn't matter that the part about taking refuge comes after.
"...under leaf's shade" is not correct. There's no reason to say anything other than "its shade" - it's the shade of the tree. If you want, you can say something like
"...under leaf's shade" is not correct. There's no reason to say anything other than "its shade" - it's the shade of the tree. If you want, you can say something like
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Oak should not be capitalized.
I'd make it even shorter:
A brief wave of ecstasy passed over me, and I stumbled over to Grandma's big oak tree to take refuge in its shade.
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