Is this a faulty parrallelism or is there an expression like this?
A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and one suddenly appears.
I happened to see this sentence on an article about the importance of making an effort, and i can see that the sentence means you can't get something only by wishing for it.
Is this sentence grammatically wrong? Or it's just a common expression ? Help!
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A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and one suddenly appears.
I happened to see this sentence on an article about the importance of making an effort, and i can see that the sentence means you can't get something only by wishing for it.
Is this sentence grammatically wrong? Or it's just a common expression ? Help!
grammar
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Not every written text requires parallelism. Whether they do or don't depends on many factors.
– Lambie
8 hours ago
The sentence is poorly written, but I'm ok with "A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden.and - poof!/voilà!/behold!/Tada!- one ... appears. The extra beat prevents the mind from trying to connect "and" with the second part of a compound verb. (The absence of a comma exacerbates this problem, but inserting a comma alone doesn't save the sentence from sounding awkward.) To my ear, the urgency of the interjections ousts the mental template the audience would otherwise deploy on seeing "and" without a comma. Good style is often just a matter of invoking and filling such templates.
– remarkl
7 hours ago
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A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and one suddenly appears.
I happened to see this sentence on an article about the importance of making an effort, and i can see that the sentence means you can't get something only by wishing for it.
Is this sentence grammatically wrong? Or it's just a common expression ? Help!
grammar
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A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and one suddenly appears.
I happened to see this sentence on an article about the importance of making an effort, and i can see that the sentence means you can't get something only by wishing for it.
Is this sentence grammatically wrong? Or it's just a common expression ? Help!
grammar
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Not every written text requires parallelism. Whether they do or don't depends on many factors.
– Lambie
8 hours ago
The sentence is poorly written, but I'm ok with "A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden.and - poof!/voilà!/behold!/Tada!- one ... appears. The extra beat prevents the mind from trying to connect "and" with the second part of a compound verb. (The absence of a comma exacerbates this problem, but inserting a comma alone doesn't save the sentence from sounding awkward.) To my ear, the urgency of the interjections ousts the mental template the audience would otherwise deploy on seeing "and" without a comma. Good style is often just a matter of invoking and filling such templates.
– remarkl
7 hours ago
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Not every written text requires parallelism. Whether they do or don't depends on many factors.
– Lambie
8 hours ago
The sentence is poorly written, but I'm ok with "A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden.and - poof!/voilà!/behold!/Tada!- one ... appears. The extra beat prevents the mind from trying to connect "and" with the second part of a compound verb. (The absence of a comma exacerbates this problem, but inserting a comma alone doesn't save the sentence from sounding awkward.) To my ear, the urgency of the interjections ousts the mental template the audience would otherwise deploy on seeing "and" without a comma. Good style is often just a matter of invoking and filling such templates.
– remarkl
7 hours ago
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Not every written text requires parallelism. Whether they do or don't depends on many factors.
– Lambie
8 hours ago
Not every written text requires parallelism. Whether they do or don't depends on many factors.
– Lambie
8 hours ago
The sentence is poorly written, but I'm ok with "A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden.and - poof!/voilà!/behold!/Tada!- one ... appears. The extra beat prevents the mind from trying to connect "and" with the second part of a compound verb. (The absence of a comma exacerbates this problem, but inserting a comma alone doesn't save the sentence from sounding awkward.) To my ear, the urgency of the interjections ousts the mental template the audience would otherwise deploy on seeing "and" without a comma. Good style is often just a matter of invoking and filling such templates.
– remarkl
7 hours ago
The sentence is poorly written, but I'm ok with "A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden.and - poof!/voilà!/behold!/Tada!- one ... appears. The extra beat prevents the mind from trying to connect "and" with the second part of a compound verb. (The absence of a comma exacerbates this problem, but inserting a comma alone doesn't save the sentence from sounding awkward.) To my ear, the urgency of the interjections ousts the mental template the audience would otherwise deploy on seeing "and" without a comma. Good style is often just a matter of invoking and filling such templates.
– remarkl
7 hours ago
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This is a very interesting example of the flexibility of language, most notably of the English language.
'A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and ...
What is expected is that we shall get a second verb dependent on can’t, such as
... expect one suddenly to appear.
Instead, all that gets stripped out and out of no-grammatical-where comes
... one suddenly appears.
So form follows meaning. And we all understand. The grammar is stretched but does not actually break.
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
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This is a very interesting example of the flexibility of language, most notably of the English language.
'A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and ...
What is expected is that we shall get a second verb dependent on can’t, such as
... expect one suddenly to appear.
Instead, all that gets stripped out and out of no-grammatical-where comes
... one suddenly appears.
So form follows meaning. And we all understand. The grammar is stretched but does not actually break.
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
– Davo
7 hours ago
add a comment |
This is a very interesting example of the flexibility of language, most notably of the English language.
'A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and ...
What is expected is that we shall get a second verb dependent on can’t, such as
... expect one suddenly to appear.
Instead, all that gets stripped out and out of no-grammatical-where comes
... one suddenly appears.
So form follows meaning. And we all understand. The grammar is stretched but does not actually break.
answered 7 hours ago
TuffyTuffy
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
– Davo
7 hours ago
add a comment |
This is a very interesting example of the flexibility of language, most notably of the English language.
'A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and ...
What is expected is that we shall get a second verb dependent on can’t, such as
... expect one suddenly to appear.
Instead, all that gets stripped out and out of no-grammatical-where comes
... one suddenly appears.
So form follows meaning. And we all understand. The grammar is stretched but does not actually break.
answered 7 hours ago
TuffyTuffy
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This is a very interesting example of the flexibility of language, most notably of the English language.
'A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and ...
What is expected is that we shall get a second verb dependent on can’t, such as
... expect one suddenly to appear.
Instead, all that gets stripped out and out of no-grammatical-where comes
... one suddenly appears.
So form follows meaning. And we all understand. The grammar is stretched but does not actually break.
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
– Davo
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
– Davo
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Nice observation, but what is you answer to the question?
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Not every written text requires parallelism. Whether they do or don't depends on many factors.
– Lambie
8 hours ago
The sentence is poorly written, but I'm ok with "A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden.and - poof!/voilà!/behold!/Tada!- one ... appears. The extra beat prevents the mind from trying to connect "and" with the second part of a compound verb. (The absence of a comma exacerbates this problem, but inserting a comma alone doesn't save the sentence from sounding awkward.) To my ear, the urgency of the interjections ousts the mental template the audience would otherwise deploy on seeing "and" without a comma. Good style is often just a matter of invoking and filling such templates.
– remarkl
7 hours ago