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 #2 (permalink) Thu Apr 19, 2007 22:38 pm Expression: 'A lion caught in a net.' |
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| It's natural and very common. "A lion caught in a net" means "a lion that has been caught in a net". We can eliminate "that has been" and just use the participle and the prepositional phrase to describe the lion. |
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Apr 20, 2007 21:07 pm Expression: 'A lion caught in a net.' |
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Thanks, Jamie
I would just like to make sure that I was able to get my point across correctly.
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, I meant a complete sentence not a phrase. For example,
No lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago.
Can we use catch this way? Or "got caught"?
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Apr 20, 2007 22:31 pm Expression: 'A lion caught in a net.' |
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I meant a complete sentence not a phrase. For example,
No lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago.
Can we use catch this way? Or "got caught"? |
Well, the verb 'catch' is sometimes used in a similar way. For example in the sense of 'get stuck', like when something catches in a zip. A heel can also catch something (or somewhere), for example.
I'm not sure a lion can catch somewhere, though -- maybe in the sense of 'become entangled' (it seems plausible enough with a net)?
Of course, the meaning would be different from that of 'got caught'. |
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Apr 26, 2007 20:15 pm Expression: 'A lion caught in a net.' |
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| Tom wrote: |
No lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago.
Can we use catch this way? Or "got caught"?
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In my opinion, the above sentence is not grammatically correct...I think you can call it a "hung sentence" but then sometimes grammar be darned! :). I find that writings in novels sometimes are not correct but they sound good... |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Apr 26, 2007 21:31 pm Expression: 'A lion caught in a net.' |
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Yeah, it is not a sentence -- "lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago" is the subject (a very long subject, yes, but a subject nonetheless). This is a fragment. This requires a predicate for it to become a sentence.
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| #7 (permalink) Mon May 14, 2007 23:11 pm Expression: 'A lion caught in a net.' |
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Catching as in 'My comb caught in my tangled hair' does not seem to work with large animate objects-- that's all I can surmise.
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