03-18-2012, 07:00 AM
[quote='Leanne' pid='92223' dateline='1332019464']
I know you hate similes... you know I don't share that irrational prejudice of yours and will ignore it!
Your alteration to L4 changes the grammatical sense, because at the moment it refers back to the previous lines and I don't want shadows to have an independent clause of their own. "As" isn't lazy, it's an adverb -- exactly the same part of speech as "eternally", incidentally, but in this context it's providing a different link as it doesn't require the addition of another verb to make it work.
The same goes for L13. Aside from the fact that your example totally screws up the meter and squishes a whole stack of illogical words together in a way that I'd whack a student for, it doesn't say what I want it to say.
What? 'As' is an adverb? It may be either a preposition, or a conjunction, joining two words, or phrases or main clauses; When used in this sense, properly, only 'as' should be used, but 'like' has crept in. So, eg one may say 'No-one loves you as I do' but not 'like I do'. 'No-one loves you' stands on its own as a sentence, and 'I do' the same, thus, it is a conjunction. One of your 'as'es is a preposition, for which you could substitute 'like', the other is a conjunction. AS you know really, an adverb modifies a verb, and 'as' never does that.
And Leanne hasn't read Kafka! Leanne hasn't read Kafka!
I know you hate similes... you know I don't share that irrational prejudice of yours and will ignore it!
Your alteration to L4 changes the grammatical sense, because at the moment it refers back to the previous lines and I don't want shadows to have an independent clause of their own. "As" isn't lazy, it's an adverb -- exactly the same part of speech as "eternally", incidentally, but in this context it's providing a different link as it doesn't require the addition of another verb to make it work.
The same goes for L13. Aside from the fact that your example totally screws up the meter and squishes a whole stack of illogical words together in a way that I'd whack a student for, it doesn't say what I want it to say.
What? 'As' is an adverb? It may be either a preposition, or a conjunction, joining two words, or phrases or main clauses; When used in this sense, properly, only 'as' should be used, but 'like' has crept in. So, eg one may say 'No-one loves you as I do' but not 'like I do'. 'No-one loves you' stands on its own as a sentence, and 'I do' the same, thus, it is a conjunction. One of your 'as'es is a preposition, for which you could substitute 'like', the other is a conjunction. AS you know really, an adverb modifies a verb, and 'as' never does that.
And Leanne hasn't read Kafka! Leanne hasn't read Kafka!