Timeline for Following as it did
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | Man_From_India | I am afraid I didn't understand it properly. I believe this sentence means this - "he was detained in custody. It is for very little time, one or two days at max. But it's effect was huge. Following his detainment he was rejected from family." | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 12:51 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Man_From_India Without "as it did" the following phrase is merely a temporal reference point. With "as it did" the phrase is identified as contributing to the unsettling effect: detainment was unsettling because it followed rejection and separation. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 7:38 | comment | added | Man_From_India | As for your second point, if in my original sentence "as it did" was omitted and only "...following his rejection ...." was there then also it would mean the same thing. Now what meaning "as it did" adds on to this sentence? | |
| Dec 24, 2013 at 17:02 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |