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Sun 17 Jul, 2005 07:52 pm
The shore north of Emerald Bay is unspoiled beauty. Chipmunks scamper over shattered trees, and red snow plants sprout amid fallen pine needles. Delicate pink flowers resembling raspberries peek from beneath shadowy shrubs.
If ever a bay has been aptly named, it's this green beauty.
1 beauty: Last time I posted a topic talking about the word "beauty", and the answer is everything that is beautiful can be called "beauty". (the second sentense). And befor the word "beauty", there is "this" which can be replaced by an article "the". But in the first sentense there is not a "the" befor "beauty", why?
2 unspoiled beauty: I think it means a beautiful thing not destructed or damaged, no interference and natural, right?
3 shattered trees: I don't know why he use "shattered", in my opinion, the trees may be damaged into pieces if it is shattered, right?
Re: unspoiled beauty,shattered trees
translatorcz wrote:The shore north of Emerald Bay is unspoiled beauty. Chipmunks scamper over shattered trees, and red snow plants sprout amid fallen pine needles. Delicate pink flowers resembling raspberries peek from beneath shadowy shrubs.
If ever a bay has been aptly named, it's this green beauty.
1 beauty: Last time I posted a topic talking about the word "beauty", and the answer is everything that is beautiful can be called "beauty". (the second sentense). And befor the word "beauty", there is "this" which can be replaced by an article "the". But in the first sentense there is not a "the" befor "beauty", why?
2 unspoiled beauty: I think it means a beautiful thing not destructed or damaged, no interference and natural, right?
3 shattered trees: I don't know why he use "shattered", in my opinion, the trees may be damaged into pieces if it is shattered, right?
#1: I really don't understand this question. It may have something to do with the use of the Noun= Beauty, and The=used before singular or plural nouns. I have to struggle with my grammar too. Someone will clarify this for you, and I will learn too.
#2: Yes
#3: Just a thought
You know how sometimes people say "shattered lives", well maybe the writer is going a step higher in his description. Trees are a living thing, and he wants us to feel the shattering of their life by the their destruction. Giving it more importance. Or could it be a typing or printing error, and he means Scattered?
Several causes may make trees shatter. They can be struck by lightning; or torn apart by storms; or in deep winter when they are coated with ice, a very cold temperature may make them literally "explode" as the ice expands. Any of these things may have happened to the trees the writer is describing.
syntinen wrote:Several causes may make trees shatter. They can be struck by lightning; or torn apart by storms; or in deep winter when they are coated with ice, a very cold temperature may make them literally "explode" as the ice expands. Any of these things may have happened to the trees the writer is describing.
Wow, I did not know that cold weather could do that. Thanks
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