keannu
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What do "they" and "work" each mean here? Does "they" mean "this or that invention" and "work" mean "function" or "be effective"?
pp182)Never will I forget my uncle John who was always inventing things. In fact, he never let a day go by without working on this or that invention. The problem was they didn't always work. Once, he worked hard for eight years to build a machine that would fill the cat's dish when it was empty. The finished machine which he thought was very useful was anything but useful. It was seven feet high!
pp182)Never will I forget my uncle John who was always inventing things. In fact, he never let a day go by without working on this or that invention. The problem was they didn't always work. Once, he worked hard for eight years to build a machine that would fill the cat's dish when it was empty. The finished machine which he thought was very useful was anything but useful. It was seven feet high!