American English Audiobooks Samples
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I struck a match to find the keyhole, and for some reason glanced involuntarily at the figure in black. I recognized two slanting eyes, two great black eyes set in a thin face of moonlight paleness, two eyes which gazed unseeing at my face. If I had never seen her before, I should still have known her. No, it was not an illusion. This black robed form, was she? I stood bemused like a man dreaming, Who knows that he is dreaming and wishes to awake, but cannot. I was unable to move. The match burned down and scorched my fingers. I abruptly came to myself and turned the key in the lock. The door opened and I stood aside when the subject complement contains an adjective, as we have seen. In two examples, a weasel is wild. The winters are very cold. That compliment names the quality of the subject. An alternative way of connecting the quality to the subject is to shift the adjective to the position before the noun head word. A wild weasel. The cold winters, the difference between the two structures, the pronoun modifier and the subject complement has to do with emphasis and purpose rather than meaning the subject complement position puts greater emphasis on the adjective