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Masa Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

what does this paragraph mean?

1i00You couldn't ask for a better example of this than of the reaction of Cheryl Tweedy. 01font00Perhaps picking up on the mumblings of dismay of women who weren't quite sure why, but didn't have a good feeling about the new media revelation of 'WAGs', her knee jerk reaction was to distance herself from them.02font00 01font00Completely missing the point, I fear, she was disgusted not by the media pigeonholing of these women and the society that had bred them, but by the fact that she felt their incessant shopping was distasteful because they were 'sponging' from their husbands!02font02br
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00Is the author disagree with Cheryl?0-
  

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0The author thinks that Cheril Tweedy did not understand the point at all02br 02br 00pigeonholing: classifying, as in some boxes; labelling as being one way or another 02br 02br 00sponging: asking/begging for money, "squeezing" someone for money02br 02br 00try again now! 0-

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0The author thinks that Cheril Tweedy did not understand the point at all02br
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00pigeonholing: classifying, as in some boxes; labelling as being one way or another 02br
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00sponging: asking/begging for money, "squeezing" someone for money02br
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0Thanks Marius Hancu for your reply. (how do you know the author is a she?) 05002br
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00However, I don't get the meaning of the following sentence: 02br
01i01font00Perhaps picking up on the mumblings of dismay of women who weren't quite sure why, but didn't have a good feeling about the new media revelation of 'WAGs', her kne
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0Hi - Can I ask you to not write in green? It's clear enough when you compose on the white field, but once you post and the background is blue, it's awful!02br
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00Perhaps picking up on the mumblings of dismay of 01font00women who weren't quite sure why, but didn't have a good feeling about the new media revelation of 'WAGs'02font0
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1b00Grammar Geek02b00 Thanks. I think I understood now.02br
00Sorry for the font color, will change it next time. 050010id1
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