ZaraCastle
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- Jun 15, 2009
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- Native Language
- Vietnamese
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- Vietnam
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- Vietnam
Hi everybody,
While reading a newspaper, I see one sentence that seems to be unfamiliar with me in grammar. Please help me analyze the structure of it.
Prominently portrayed, surveying sphinx-like the carnage committed in his name, is the Pharaoh.
To be honest, I couldn't find the subject at the beginning of the sentence(May be the Pharaoh?). Furthermore, "portrayed, surveying sphinx-like" turns out to be so weird when sphinx-like is an adjective(I think it is more suitable to be adverb in this case). In line with the phrase, what is the sort of portrayed( it is a verb or an adjective?).
Thanks very much for your comments.
While reading a newspaper, I see one sentence that seems to be unfamiliar with me in grammar. Please help me analyze the structure of it.
Prominently portrayed, surveying sphinx-like the carnage committed in his name, is the Pharaoh.
To be honest, I couldn't find the subject at the beginning of the sentence(May be the Pharaoh?). Furthermore, "portrayed, surveying sphinx-like" turns out to be so weird when sphinx-like is an adjective(I think it is more suitable to be adverb in this case). In line with the phrase, what is the sort of portrayed( it is a verb or an adjective?).
Thanks very much for your comments.