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user 50451
Use this tag for questions about meanings of whole sentences rather than phrases.
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One would a pack of leprous dogs clinging to life
I am reading the book NIGHT written by Elie Wiesel. Here is a sentence I don't understand: He looked at us as one would a pack of leprous dogs clinging to life.
Does the "would" here is equivalent to …
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What to make of?
What does this marked sentence mean? In this paragraph, are the sentences following after the answer to the question the first sentence puts forword?
According to my understanding, "What to make of" …
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Is "be it by" here a set phrase?
Is "be it by" here a set phrase? Or it's a clause, but where is the subject?
The authors of the document, drawn up by the European commission’s
security union taskforce, write that the Schenge …
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Infinitive: "to convince a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court"
According to grammar, in the latter sentence, "it had sufficient cause to believe Mr Trump or his associates were involved with terrorists or foreign spies" is a complete sentence. Added with "to conv …
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A sentence in Sense and Sensibility
When I am reading sense and sensibility, this sentence beats me.
1) why should three letters of "HER" are all capital?
2) As to the latter sentence, "two maids and a man" is the subject, but what is …
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