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thanks, it's complement instead of compliment. I have edited my post and change it to attribute.It seems I had a typo.
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According to this theory, a large meteor hitting the moon would melt the surface rock by the force of collision.
Is it an attribute or adverbial conditions? Why?Thanks.
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Thank you, guys.Actually, it's from the commencement speech delivered by Steve Jobs at Stanford in 2005. People like him always introducing new fantastic stuff to us tend to use very old expressions eh?!
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"Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation."Here the meaning of this structure is very clear. (= to tell you the truth) But I can't get why this structure is used in this way. A sentence adverbial? How does it...
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thanks. ButThere are two entries in the dictionary for as it is: 1. already 2. because of the situation that actually exists - used when that situation is different from what you expected or needIt seems to me that both of them are not appropriate put into the sentence,...
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But the understanding of Nature, incomplete as it is, which is to be derived from science, I hold to be a thing which is good and delightful on its own account.What is the meaning of as it is here? Usually there is no adj. before it. Hold here is still a transitive verb, right? We can rearrange...
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So in fact it is not a verbal phrase: turn on sth. It's a collocation of vi.+prep+n. It's more or less like centre around/on sth. Thank you, guys.
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hi, guys.What does it mean here in the sentence?This is a very fast moving, very suspenseful movie, and it turns really on the ethical dilemmas facing Sorowitsch.turn on: "to begin to display, employ, or exude" In this sense, it means the movie shows the audience the dilemmas facing...
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So it is because of the strange appearance of Father Roger that she comes to grips with the character and tries hard to understand him.
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I am still trying to
conjure with one of Darren MacWarren's soap characters, Father Roger. It's a movie review introducing Darren MacWarren played by Jason Gann. MacWarren is a TV soap actor in the movie. conjure up: chiefly British : to treat or regard as important <Victor Hugo is...
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