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Can you explain the grammatical structure of the latter part (new blades...) ? Don't you need "with" before "new blades", do you?
Mucho shaved his upper lip every morning three times with, three times against the grain to remove any remotest breath of a moustache, new blades he drew blood invariably but kept at it;
Can you explain the grammatical structure of the latter part (new blades...) ? Don't you need "with" before "new blades", do you?
Mucho shaved his upper lip every morning three times with, three times against the grain to remove any remotest breath of a moustache, new blades he drew blood invariably but kept at it;
Mucho shaved his upper lip every morning three times with, three times against the grain to remove any remotest breath of a moustache, new blades he drew blood invariably but kept at it;
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- English (US)
I find the entire sentence kind of odd.
I looked it up on the web. Someone called it an elliptical style of writing.
You are correct though, "with" would make it more gramattically correct.
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Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to looking it up. It helps.
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