Comments on: Once, I strode across continents… https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/05/08/once-i-strode-across-continents/ music, memories, and microfiction from TK Major Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:47:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: TK https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/05/08/once-i-strode-across-continents/#comment-23604 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:47:54 +0000 http://ayearofsongs.org/blg/?p=220#comment-23604 In reply to Patty Melt.

I’ve been pondering the grammar issue above since last year…

Just kidding. Life has distracted me from myself and all my creations. I’ve been a bad blog host, indeed.

Now, back to that grammar issue: we both agree that strode is past tense. I suspect we would both think it okay if I substituted walked for strode, yes?

Could I not then say, “Once, I walked across continents…”?

Sure, it sounds a bit mannered — but we’re talking about a song ‘about’ an angel, here…

Anyhow, thanks for your comments and the nice compliment. Hope to see you again around here. I need to kick this thing into life again.

]]> By: Patty Melt https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/05/08/once-i-strode-across-continents/#comment-23406 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:27:59 +0000 http://ayearofsongs.org/blg/?p=220#comment-23406 The word “strode” is already past tense

Using the word “once” in front of the word “strode” is unnecessary

“I strode across continents” is sufficient

Also, angels do not enslave.
Angels encourage freedom, not enslavement.

thanks! Great song!

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