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| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/653477087060303872 | ||
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:43 | comment | added | sooeithdk | @JHCL, medica According to you guys, it means that the adjectival phrase "too tempting to resist" is used as a discontinuous adjective phrase (I don't know the correct term for this grammatical phenomenon, but I think you get what I mean) in the first sentence, being discontinued by noun "a chance", am I correct? | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:36 | comment | added | JHCL | I may not have grasped your analysis, but you seem to be saying that (1) could be punctuated as "It was too tempting: a chance to resist." - in other words, the irresistable temptation is to resist (something unspecified). This seems such an unlikely scenario that clarification through punctuation would be the minimum required, and you'd be better off completely rephrasing it. As written, the two sentences have the same meaning. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:28 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | "It was a chance." The rest is adjectival modification. You can split it up to select the emphasis you want. A chance to resist, too tempting it was. is unnatural in speech, but it still means the same thing, and places a heavy emphasis on the chance and tempting because of the order. It still means the same thing. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:27 | comment | added | sooeithdk | @medica For example: Different people from America. People different from America. They mean the different thing, don't they? | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:20 | comment | added | sooeithdk | @medica But how does the sentence 1 mean the same thing as sentence 2? I thought that "too tempting" should be connected to "to resist". | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:19 | history | edited | sooeithdk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:19 | answer | added | V.V. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:19 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | I think you're overthinking this thing. They both mean the same thing. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:19 | history | edited | sooeithdk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2015 at 2:02 | history | asked | sooeithdk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |