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Pructus Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Seems to be not correct..........

0All day long we dodged bullets in 01u00rank suburban tangles of elderberry and ailanthus and day lilies run wild02u00, scrambling on our hands and knees, running doubled over, running and freezing and running again, barraged by fire from an enemy we never saw. 02br
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00The sentence above, the underlined part, seems not to be correct to me, because "suburban tangles of elderberry and ailanthus and day lilies" seems OK, but where does the "run wild" come from?02br
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00To be correct, shouldn't it be "rank suburban tangles where00 00elderberry and ailanthus and day lilies ran wild"?02br
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00What is native speaker's sense of English here?02br
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0The writer is using 'run wild' adjectivally to describe these plants which used to be tended in a garden, but now just grow naturally.0-
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0 Thank you Marius, that's what I meant really instead of 'naturally'. 0-
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0Thanks to you all....02br
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00This is one joy of learning a foreign language.......0-
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