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The subject of the adverb "Whereon" (line 6) is the
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry All right AP English people were looking at this
- 00:06
poem here Love Strong is death is dead blah blah
- 00:09
You can skim it if you want your brave staring
- 00:12
into the gaping maw of death here Okay the question
- 00:15
Let's just get to it The subject of the adverb
Full Transcript
- 00:18
But we're on in a line Six right there as
- 00:22
we said is the what What is it What does
- 00:25
it symbolize or relate to Well when it comes to
- 00:29
adverbs look not only at the verb which is what
- 00:33
the ad to the verb is describing right That's why
- 00:36
they call it an ad for but also the subject
- 00:39
that directly precedes it Like whatever is doing the verb
- 00:43
active thing Line five describes a stone at his feet
- 00:47
Where on they sit Well if there's room for at
- 00:50
least two it must be pretty big stone there Right
- 00:52
Also an informal shmoop poll has revealed that we're on
- 00:56
is the adverb of the year So the answer is
- 00:58
east Don't Yeah number five right there All right Well
- 01:01
it'd be pretty weird if the speaker we're sitting on
- 01:03
the dead guy's feet or on love itself that be
- 01:07
hard to Dio The speaker and her crew are sitting
- 01:09
on a stone at her love's feet It's where they'll
- 01:11
be able to spend some quiet hours thinking about the
- 01:14
one they lost Right The green turf A isn't doing
- 01:17
the sitting and the bed is structurally too far away
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to fit here So get rid of those as well 00:01:22.19 --> [endTime] The entries Uh girls
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