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Yoong Liat  +  323838 Sun, 04 Feb 07 04:23 AM

... a large shiny object floating in the sea.

My daughter was asked to write a composition related to the above. She suggested a bottle, but I wonder whether a bottle is big enough to be classified as 'large' and 'shiny'. Could someone come with suggestions to help her and me.

Thank you in advance.

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Philip  +  323839 Sun, 04 Feb 07 04:30 AM
 Yoong Liat wrote:

... a large shiny object floating in the sea.

My daughter was asked to write a composition related to the above. She suggested a bottle, but I wonder whether a bottle is big enough to be classified as 'large' and 'shiny'. Could someone come with suggestions to help her and me.

Thank you in advance.

An aluminum surfboard?  An overturned canoe or rowboat?
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Yoong Liat, 2 yr 297 days ago

Hi Philip

Would you accept 'bottle'?

CalifJim  +  323858 Sun, 04 Feb 07 06:16 AM
Compared to the sea, I don't see a bottle as large and shiny.  I prefer the previously suggested items.

CJ

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Philip  +  324239 Sun, 04 Feb 07 06:50 PM
 Philip wrote:
 Yoong Liat wrote:

... a large shiny object floating in the sea.

My daughter was asked to write a composition related to the above. She suggested a bottle, but I wonder whether a bottle is big enough to be classified as 'large' and 'shiny'. Could someone come with suggestions to help her and me.

Thank you in advance.

An aluminum surfboard?  An overturned canoe or rowboat?
Make it even more macabre:  car door.
Flygonwings, 2 yr 296 days ago
Maybe a garbage can (I know it's ridiculous) or a piece of metal off of a ship.
Grammar Geek  +  324399 Mon, 05 Feb 07 12:18 AM
An alien spacecraft!
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Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!
Anonymous, 2 yr 295 days ago
Aircraft stabilizer, cargo bay door or rudder are shiny,  large and floating on the sea...
Squeaky, 2 yr 295 days ago

A shipping container.

after all they fall off ships quite frequently.

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