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Why does Bradbury use "had to" in "what they had to offer."?
An excerpt from "Just this Side of Byzantium" by Ray Bradbury:
I had to send myself back, with words as catalysts, to open the memories out and see what they had to
offer.
Why does the ...
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Why does Ray Bradbury use "flounder" for an action with a positive outcome?
From "Just this Side of Byzantium" by Ray Bradbury:
It was with great relief, then, that in my early twenties I floundered into a word-association process in which I simply got out of bed ...