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Hi, there
1I was reading Dracula, and there is a passage that reads
" One of my companions touched my arm as we swept around the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain..."
What's the subject of "opener up" here's? Shouldn't it be "and there opened up"?
2) Hi, there
Would you help me with two questions? Please!
2) On many websites, I found that you can invert the subject and the verb of a sentence when you put an adverbial expression of place at the beginning of the sentence.
Like: Round the corner came the knights.
In a book, I've come across (or I CAME ACROSS??)
"From the dark space in her folds there flowed a slow and heavy black liquid."
My question is: isn't "from the dark space" an adverbial expression? Why "there" before "flowed" then? Why not "from ththe dark space in her folds flowed..."?
Please!!
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Vocabulary
1I was reading Dracula, and there is a passage that reads
" One of my companions touched my arm as we swept around the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain..." Without the "there", the arm of the companion not only touched the writer but also to act as if I had opened [the curtain of ] the window to show the writer the snow covered peak.
What's the subject of "opener up" here's? Shouldn't it be "and there opened up"?
2) Hi, there
Would you help me with two questions? Please!
2) On many websites, I found that you can invert the subject and the verb of a sentence when you put an adverbial expression of place at the beginning of the sentence.
Like: Round the corner came the knights. This is a poetic way of describing the scene. This is more colorful than saying, "The knights came around the corner."
In a book, I've come across (or I CAME ACROSS??) "I came across" or "I had come across" since you are not describing an ongoing event but something had happened already.
"From the dark space in her folds there flowed a slow and heavy black liquid." When you read this line aloud, having "there" flows smoothly and didn't seem to be too abrupt. These are creative writing and how colorful a scene is depicted depends on the writer's skill and command of the language.
My question is: isn't "from the dark space" an adverbial expression? Why "there" before "flowed" then? Why not "from ththe dark space in her folds flowed..."?
Please!!
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Hi Jordana! Are you reading Dracula in English?
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Vocabulary
Hi, there1I was reading Dracula, and there is a passage that reads
" One of my companions touched my arm as we swept around the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain..."
What's the subject of "opened up" here's? Shouldn't it be "and there opened up"?
i find this very difficult indeed i could be wrong but here goes
the "there" you are speaking of is "the base of a hill"
because when they rounded the corner at that base of the hill it is there that the full view opened up
this means that "there" is of no use anymore because it implies "at the base off the hill"
2) Hi, there
Would you help me with two questions? Please!
2) On many websites, I found that you can invert the subject and the verb of a sentence when you put an adverbial expression of place at the beginning of the sentence.
Like: Round the corner came the knights.
In a book, I've come across (or I CAME ACROSS??)
"From the dark space in her folds there flowed a slow and heavy black liquid."
My question is: isn't "from the dark space" an adverbial expression? Why "there" before "flowed" then? Why not "from the dark space in her folds flowed..."?
again very difficult "From the dark space in her folds there flowed a slow and heavy black liquid." sounds correct but "there" is not needed (but still correct though)
since "From the dark space in her folds flowed a slow and heavy black liquid." sounds also grammatically correct
hope this helps you a step further
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