A sentence from Longman Dictionary
That smell of oil and candles and that light from a distant window and him on his knees, mumbling.
I can't make out the meaning of the sentence and thesubject.
Is it from literature?
Thanks in advance.
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That smell of oil and candles and that light from a distant window and him on his knees, mumbling.
I can't make out the meaning of the sentence and thesubject.
Is it from literature?
Thanks in advance.
This is not actually a full sentence, because there is no verb. The whole thing could be used as a compound object phrase. For instance
That smell of oil and candles and that light from a distant window and him on his knees, mumbling, are the only things I remember from that night.
Or, it could be used as a compound subject by changing the case of the pronoun as follows.
That smell of oil and candles and that light from a distant window and he on his knees, mumbling, created a lasting memory in my mind.