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What does 'naturally' mean in the sentence:

Naturally the building could not escape being scratched, bruised and marked.

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Last edited by PINKGREAT; 02-May-2007 at 06:09. Reason: one word

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Re: Naturally

It means that the writier think it is perfectly logical that these things happened to the building. BTW, I'd put a comma after it.

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