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Subject: Re: does this sentence make sense?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:28:19 -0400
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I just wanted to discuss the grammer, did not mean to pick on the person who
posted the message.
Should we use passive form as below.
I wrote a song that was inspired by The Great Novel.
"nimbus" <sdhelweg@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I need feedback from someone whose native language is english. I wrote
> a song inspired by The Great Novel "The Great Gatsby". But - the song
> begins with a line, that I'm not sure makes (even poetic) sense in
> english. It goes like this:
>
> "I piled my charms to the second floor"
>
> Is this interpretable? And if it is, how would you interpret it?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Nimbus
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