Please please please help me!!!

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Hungry

#342689 Sat, 24 Mar 07 03:07 AM

Hi Doll, Thanks for giving me a hand! Smile [:)]

Doll wrote:

It is quite unclear from... They might be the ( Why "the"? I think we are talking in general.) questions regarding some problems of life.

Hungry

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#342976 Sat, 24 Mar 07 08:21 PM

You are welcome, I just try to do my best.I hope I can do enough for you.

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#342988 Sat, 24 Mar 07 08:57 PM

Try to read between the lines: The children are blooming; they represent spring, whereas the writer is a haggered old man approaching winter, but through the children he can once again experience spring.

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Hungry

#342993 Sat, 24 Mar 07 09:12 PM

Hello Doll, It's so nice and sweet of you to do so. Big Smile [:D]

But I am still a bit confused. You have suggested me to use 'the' in the first place, and 'some' in the second. Don't you think 'the' implies particularity? I think the whole sentence is supposed to mean problems in general rather than in particular?

By the way, what about

It's quite unclear from the poem. They might be some questions regarding general problems of life.

It is quite unclear from... They might be the ( Why "the"? I think we are talking in general.) questions regarding some problems of life.

With best wishes, Smile [:)]

Hungry

Doll

#342994 Sat, 24 Mar 07 09:14 PM

It's quite unclear from the poem. They might be some questions regarding general problems of

Hungry I am really so sorry I wrote it by mistake.Your sentence is correct.

Doll

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