She continues to stare the screen of the T.V. She feels like a doll that’s falling apart by the seams. She feels like her very existence is slowly fading away. Her brain is slowly losing control of her body as her limbs twitch and spasm. She can also hear a familiar voice laughing maniacal laughter, though she didn’t know who it was from. She can see dark figures in the dark, staring at her. She feels restless and her body is constantly trying to move. She can only helplessly lay on the couch and look at the T.V. No matter how hard she tries to even just close her eyes, it just seems like her eyelids are glued apart. I'm stuck self-torturing my meds are failing me. What happened to her internal clock? Hopelessness washes over her mind like a deadly poison. It feels like an eternity since she last slept. Empty sleeping pill bottles litters the floor of the small apartment floor. She wonders how long it will take until she can free herself from this state of insanity. Glare at my screen with two big bloodshot eyes. She forgot how long she has been staring at the static with her round, bloodshot eyes that can’t seem to even blink. Static is the only thing displayed on the screen. It’s like the door and windows were boarded up with steel boards to take away all contact from the outside world. In fact, she can’t even see outside the windows. It’s a shame she can’t go out to see the beautiful night sky. The moon shines bright in the night sky, the glittering stars complementing the beauty of the night. This pasta should not be edited by anyone except the author to maintain the quality of the page. This award is bestowed once a month to someone who was written an interesting, engaging, and an overall fantastic pasta. There is no ambiguity in "his eyes were wide open".This pasta is an extremely high quality pasta which has won Pasta of the Month in the past! Consider this pasta one of the best of the best. In the post-positioned form and as predicative adjective that's not necessary and the hyphenated form is even considered wrong for predicative use. In this case the hyphenated form 'wide-open' clearly shows the reader that it's a compound word, thus the hyphen is justified. 2 adjectives that modify "eyes" and that's clearly different from 'wide open' as adverb + adjective. If you write "with his wide open eyes, he." this could be misread as "wide and open", ie. Personally, I try to avoid confusion with my punctuation by using as little as possible but if I see the potential of ambiguity or misinterpretation that could be avoided with punctutation, I use it. Then there are others who are a bit overbearing and use so many punctuation marks that you lose track of what the sentence is trying to say. When you look at some texts from native speakers on the internet, you'll find a number of writers who use practically no punctuation at all, except the period. It seems that hyphenation - or for that matter, punctuation in general - has become a bit of a question of personal style. he didn't speak at all, it was the look in his eyes that said "Go away!"Ĭlick to expand.It's hard to provide a general answer for that. Of course, that is anatomically unlikely, so most readers might interpret it as figurative usage, ie. Granted, this form does not guarantee it, but it suggests it.ī) The literal meaning has changed now, because he is now speaking with his eyes. With his wide-open eyes he said, "Go away!"Ī) " his wide-open eyes" suggests that his eyes are always wide open. If you change that, it becomes ambiguous: "With his eyes wide open, he said" conveys the same idea as " Having his eyes wide open, he said" or "With his eye being wide open, he said" Meaning, they are not wide open by nature, they are not always like that. With his eyes wide open, he said, "Go away!"įor me, the post-positioned adjective has the effect that it implies a verbal action. Most of the time the meaning changes - or at least a nuance of meaning. (I think!)Īlthough I agree with velisarius in general, you shouldn't think that postpositioned adjectives can freely be changed to normal attributive adjectives. > Here the same phrase can be seen as a post-positioned attributive adjective. > Here the adjectival phrase wide open is used in a predicative way. The first sentence is different from the second: Click to expand.What do you mean by "another" example?
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