Timeline for How to understand “there” following “on the wall”?
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| Mar 30, 2022 at 17:25 | history | edited | ColleenV |
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| Apr 12, 2014 at 17:19 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | Related: ell.stackexchange.com/a/8182/3281 | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 15:27 | answer | added | MMJZ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 5:45 | comment | added | Maulik V | your link is bad. it keeps on loading and nothing loads for a long time. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 22:36 | history | edited | Tyler James Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Spaces after periods, consistent curly quotation marks, source, tag
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| Apr 9, 2014 at 5:11 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | I believe that we can parse it at least two ways: a) "There, there is a clock on the wall." b) "A wall is there. There is a clock on it." Both alternatives, though a little different from each other, are very similar in meaning, and can be used to describe exactly the same scene. If you chose to parse it as in b), I agree that the "there" there would be a post-positive attribute of "the wall". For more formal analyses, please wait for other answerers. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 3:34 | history | asked | user48070 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |