Timeline for Grammar questions regarding an excerpt from The Giver
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| Mar 28, 2023 at 18:48 | comment | added | Stuart F | Part of the confusion is that verbs of vision such as "look" more usually take an object complement or a clause describing the object, as in "I looked at him chastened and fearful", rather than a complement describing the subject (contrast "I went home happy", an example where the subject is characterised as "happy", not the home). You also have inversion with the subject of "looking" following the verb. So everything is back to front. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 7:12 | history | edited | user83454 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2016 at 6:11 | comment | added | cellardoor | Thanks for the corrections.:) I changed "his" to "her." And I'm still reading your answer, trying to understand what you've just explained.... Thank you for the answer, Ringo. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 6:09 | comment | added | user83454 | Some verbal acrobatics in the sentence, but I'm not impressed with its literary quality. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 6:05 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | Lois Lowry is a woman. Question updated. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 6:03 | history | edited | user83454 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2016 at 5:54 | history | answered | user83454 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |