Conversation started Jan 4, 2013 at 11:26.
Meysam
Meysam
Jan 4, 2013 11:26
@JasperLoy Can you help me with the meaning of "down toward" in this text?
"In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. This was **down toward** Tuttletown"
user19161
@Meysam This sentence is very hard to parse!
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Robusto Don't leave forever! Don't let the scoundrels win.
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Meysam
Meysam
Does it mean that this deserted place is located down the Tuttletown? or does it mean that Tuttletown is the very place the author is talking about?
@JasperLoy find the full text here: classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/mtwain/bl-mtwain-cal.htm
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Meysam down is often used with regards to position, e.g. "I'm going down to my parent's house this evening", even is the place isn't actually lower, or more southerly, than where one currently is. toward is a direction. "This was down toward Tuttletown" means that the place was in the same direction as Tuttletown.
Meysam
Meysam
@MattЭллен So if one goes down to that direction, they will first reach the deserted place, and then Tuttletown. right?
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Jan 4, 2013 11:37
yes
 
Conversation ended Jan 4, 2013 at 11:37.