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what's the "barely suppressed anger" mean? barely suppressed anger? suppressed here is an adj or a verb? thanks
Jul 22, 2011 2:33 AM
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the anger is being supressed the supression of that anger is ineffective I believe that "supressed" is a transitive verb here and "anger" is the object of the transitive verb. "Barely" is the adverb modifing "supressed" indicating that the supression of the anger is barely effective.
July 22, 2011
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