Timeline for What did the author mean by "before it became too late" in the following passage?
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| Feb 15 at 11:41 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | OK - with the additional context, it was too late for the narrator to work it out., | |
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| Feb 15 at 9:28 | comment | added | Stuart F | You don't provide enough context. It's not clear who is doing the figuring out, the forces or Kellner. But one possible context would be this: Kellner was trying to figure something out that would prevent a crime. If he was too slow, it would be too late to figure anything out and the crime would occur, so they could have waited and trusted he would be too late. But before it was too late to take action on this, i.e. before the crime, they abducted him. | |
| Feb 15 at 9:24 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Once he had been abducted, it was too late for him to work out that he was at risk of abduction. | |
| Feb 15 at 8:14 | comment | added | Xanne | I think the author means “before there was time”. So it’s grammatical but not logical. Writing intended to be fast-moving but isn’t really good. | |
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| Feb 15 at 6:20 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | “before it became too late“ I see nothing weird or out of place in the quotation. | |
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| Feb 15 at 5:51 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | The word before seems out of place: "Forces entered into his life and it became too late ..." | |
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