The 6th of August of 1945 US made burst two atomic bombs over the civil population in Japan. At less than 2 kilometers of distance from one of the detonations, near the bridge Misasa(Hiroshima), lived Sadako Sasaki, a just 2-year little girl is not involved with all that is going to mean in her life.
Nine years later after that, when Sadako turned 11, she started to feel bad while was running by the field. Immediately she was taken to the hospital where was diagnosed leukaemia. Many thousands of people developed this disease after being exposed to radiation from atomic bomb. When she knew this
Chizuko Hamamoto, a good friend of Sadako, spoke her about an old Japanese legend well known as Senbarazu or the legend of the thousand cranes from Origami. According to this legend, the crane will grant you a desire to those who are able to make a thousand paper cranes.
Chizuco Hamamoto made the first crane with gold paper and sent it to Sadako for that she goes on making the rest, nine hundred ninety nine.
Sadako while was inside hospital took any piece of paper that she found to make a crane. When she didn't find paper then she took the labels from the medicines to make the cranes of origami with them. She patiently kept this labor during 11 months while she remained in the hospital. Not even for a day while she was within, she stopped to take the minimal chance to carry on her target.
The little Sadako died the 25th of October of 1955.
She achieved 644 cranes.
After she died, her family and school mates finished her work and it was made a statue to pay a tribute for her.
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ON the 6th of August of 1945 THE US EXPLODED two atomic bombs over the civilIAN population in Japan. At less than 2 kilometers of distance from one of the detonations, near the bridge Misasa (Hiroshima), lived Sadako Sasaki, a little girl OF JUST TWO YEARS OF AGE WHO WAS not involved with all that WAS going to mean in her life.
ReplyDeleteNine years later [], when Sadako turned 11, she started to feel bad while [] running by the field. Immediately she was taken to the hospital where was diagnosed WITH leukaemia. Many thousands of people developed this disease after being exposed to radiation from THE atomic bomb. When she knew this,
Chizuko Hamamoto, a good friend of Sadako, spoke TO her about an old Japanese legend well known as Senbarazu or the legend of the thousand cranes from Origami. According to this legend, the crane will grant you a desire to those who are able to make a thousand paper cranes.
Chizuco Hamamoto made the first crane with gold paper and sent it to Sadako SO that she WOULD go on making the rest, nine hundred ninetY-Nine.
WHILE Sadako was iN THE hospital SHE took any piece of paper that she found to make a crane. When she didn't find paper then she took the labels from the medicines to make the cranes of origami with them. She patiently kept UP this labor during 11 months while she remained in the hospital. Not even for a day while she was within DID she stoP to take the minimal chance to carry on her target.
The little Sadako died the 25th of October of 1955.
She COMPLETed 644 cranes. After she died, her family and school mates finished her work and A STATUE was made to pay a tribute TO her.
In "nine hundred ninety-nine" is the script compulsory.??
ReplyDelete...DID she stop to take the minimal... Isn't "did" compulsory but it is more emphatic?
"While running" sounds better than "while she was running"? or is it a mistake?
The general rule I've seen is that one should write out numbers below 10, but that numerals are preferred for larger numbers. In your case, I like that your wrote out the number. That emphasized its magnitude.
ReplyDeleteThe DID in this case is not for emphasis but is rather driven by the negative sense of the sentence.
I probably would have said "while she was running", but "while running" is fine. You omitted the "she".
Might you write some examples with "did" using this structure, it is new for me.
ReplyDeleteYou can think of it as an extension of the normal negative sentence, wherein we say "did + not + verb". But when the negation (nor, not) is that front, the form becomes "did + subject + verb". For example:
ReplyDeleteWe didn't know that he was sick; nor DID we know that he had died.
Not for a second DID I think of taking that money.
Other auxiliary verbs can behave the same way:
...nor COULD we believe that he had died.
Not for a second WOULD I think of taking that money.
It is a very interesting structure and no obvious for learners.
ReplyDeleteNot for a second did I think of similar structure.
Not for a day did I stop to thank you your corrections