Sherika Anderson
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Could a teacher please help me decipher this sentence?
"So unreliable was the rank and file of the eighteenth-century Prussian army that military manuals forbade camping near a woods or forest: The troops would simply melt away into the trees."
I found two subjects
subject to the left: rank
Right: file
Verb: was
please tell me if I am right. Also please help me with the modifiers and help me understand why they are modifiers.
thank you.
"So unreliable was the rank and file of the eighteenth-century Prussian army that military manuals forbade camping near a woods or forest: The troops would simply melt away into the trees."
I found two subjects
subject to the left: rank
Right: file
Verb: was
please tell me if I am right. Also please help me with the modifiers and help me understand why they are modifiers.
thank you.
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