About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of perched on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen.
All of a sudden her handicap was [color=red]gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.
[size=150][color=red]“gone” in the underlined sentence can be replaced by missing or lost? why? what’s the differences among them? thanks in advance.[/size]
If you mean the differences between the various definitions of the word ‘gone’, that is not really possible to do. Sometimes words are used to mean different things and you have to depend on the context to tell you which is appropriate.
Beeesneees,
‘I saw that she was kind of perched on her chair.’
What is the meaning of ‘kind of perched’?
The dictionary says ‘perch’ means ‘sit’.
Please clarify me to understand.
Thanks.
#2 places a slight emphasis on the actual act of seeing them walk into the building, though I am not convinced that many native English speakers would consider this difference when using the sentence in informal conversation.
Beeesneees,
As it is written below :
‘I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.’
can I write as below :
‘They ran, picking up whatever weapons come to hand.’ or is it should be :
‘They ran, picking up whatever weapons came to hand.’ ?
Please explain.
Thanks.
Beeesneees,
As it is written below :
‘I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.’
can I write as below :
‘They ran, picking up whatever weapons come to hand.’ or should it be :
‘They ran, picking up whatever weapons came to hand.’ ?
Please explain.
Thanks.
As “ran” is the past tense, then you would need the past tense of the verb “to come” which is “came”, as standard practice.
The context of the first sentence dictates a different requirement. This is why you cannot just compare very different sentences that happen to use the same word or phrase and expect the same results.
“Come in” is is not the main verb in these sentences.
I /saw/ an elderly couple come in to the room.
They /picked/ up whatever came to hand.