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28 Apr 2014
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While reading a dictionary, I encountered the following sentence.
"As a little boy, I accepted as gospel everything my father told me."
It sounded kinda strange to me as I had never heard a sentence made of such a sentence structure.
The question is, could the sentence above and the following one which I made myself be interchangeable?
"As a little boy, I accepted everything my father told me as gospel."
Thanks a lot in advance!
While reading a dictionary, I encountered the following sentence.
"As a little boy, I accepted as gospel everything my father told me."
It sounded kinda strange to me as I had never heard a sentence made of such a sentence structure.
The question is, could the sentence above and the following one which I made myself be interchangeable?
"As a little boy, I accepted everything my father told me as gospel."
Thanks a lot in advance!
"As a little boy, I accepted as gospel everything my father told me."
It sounded kinda strange to me as I had never heard a sentence made of such a sentence structure.
The question is, could the sentence above and the following one which I made myself be interchangeable?
"As a little boy, I accepted everything my father told me as gospel."
Thanks a lot in advance!
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- English (US)
"Accept as gospel" is an idiom. It means, "to believe something as completely true"
So the phrase is really just saying, "As a boy, I took everything my father said as the truth"
I think it's a phrase anyone that didn't know the idiom, wouldn't understand it.
The way you reworded it is good!
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Thank you!
I didn't know the idiom. Problem solved :)
I didn't know the idiom. Problem solved :)
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