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Hi everyone. I have a grammar question relating to a sentence in my Idioms book. The sentence is " One day he came into work looking like death warmed up and so we told him to go away for a few days to recharge his batteries" I don't know if the "looking like death warmed up" part is a restrictive adverbial participle phrase or not. Please help!
Last edited by englishhobby; 11-Jan-2014 at 21:21.
If I were a native speaker of English, I would never shut up. :-)
Regarding the idiom, I know it as "death warmed over." Do you know it as "death warmed up"?
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
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Right. We warm up everything else (including ourselves - "Brr! Let's go inside and warm up!") but it's "you look like death warmed over" in my experience. I was wondering if it was local to the northeast, or largely US, but now I know it's clearly not British.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
Welcome to the forum, ntmhoang.![]()
Your first question proved to be an interesting one, but please note that a better title would have been Looking like death warmed up.
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'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'
I'm wondering why you need to find a label such as 'a restrictive adverbial participle phrase' for it.
Last edited by Rover_KE; 12-Jan-2014 at 13:37.
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