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#2 (permalink) Sun Apr 07, 2013 21:26 pm Re: face down or his face down or with his face down |
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Why, in (2) and (3) is the position of the head being emphasized?
Single sentences don't give a context.
e.g. The man was lying with his face down by the side of the road. His mouth pressed into the mud, which entered the buccal cavity (=mouth) and cut off his capacity to breathe. He died, not from his injuries, but from asphyxiation.(= to die by being deprived of air)
The context here is that by his face, and so his mouth, being in that position, caused his death. |
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#3 (permalink) Sun Apr 07, 2013 22:43 pm face down or his face down or with his face down |
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2 ought to be puctuated: The man was lying, his face down, by the side of the road - but as Bazza has said, it seems unusual that an emphasis would be placed on the position of his head in this way. _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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