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Stenka25 Posted 17 years ago
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With us hung-over but dignified
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In the next paragraph, can you tell me the relevance of the red-lettered part? I cannot tell how it is wrong exactly, but somehow it seems wrong.
Periodically he would go missing and we would have to check the hospitals and with the police. Most often he was locked up in the holding cell for drunks. He’d return to the campus with us hung-over but dignified, with blood crusted in nostrils from the police beating him.
In the next paragraph, can you tell me the relevance of the red-lettered part? I cannot tell how it is wrong exactly, but somehow it seems wrong.
Periodically he would go missing and we would have to check the hospitals and with the police. Most often he was locked up in the holding cell for drunks. He’d return to the campus with us hung-over but dignified, with blood crusted in nostrils from the police beating him.
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No, I don't see anything wrong. I read it as: He’d return to the campus with us [ in a ] hung-over but dignified [ condition ],
- No, I don't see anything wrong.
- I read it as: He’d return to the campus with us [ in a ] hung-over but dignified [ condition ],
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No, I don't see anything wrong. I read it as:
He’d return to the campus with us [in a] hung-over but dignified [condition],
He’d return to the campus with us [in a] hung-over but dignified [condition],
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I think the part in question would be clearer if a comma was added as shown bleow in red:
He’d return to the campus with us, hung-over but dignified, with blood crusted in his nostrils from the police beating him.
He’d return to the campus with us, hung-over but dignified, with blood crusted in his nostrils from the police beating him.
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Stenka25somehow it seems wrongNo.
He would return with us to the campus.
He was hung-over, but he was dignified at the time.
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