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Confused by a sentence from a children's picture book!
Sergent Murphy was busy putting parking tickets on cars WHEN, SUDDENLY, WHO SHOULD COME RUNNING OUT OF THE MARKET BUT Bananas Gorilla. He had stolen a bunch of bananas, and was trying to escape.
The above words are from a picture book for children. The words written in capital letters are the part that I can not figure its meaning out. All those words are 'easy', but it is hard to guess when putting together.
2 de jun. de 2015 1:15
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'When' means that Bananas came out at the time when Murphy was ticketing the cars.
'Suddenly' means that Bananas came out quickly.
'Who should come out' is a rhetorical question. Because it is written as a story, the writer is asking the listeners to guess who came out.
Does that help?
2 de junio de 2015
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A simple way of saying this is "Sergent Murphy was busy putting parking tickets on cars WHEN SUDDENLY Bananas Gorilla CAME RUNNING OUT OF THE MARKET. He had stolen a bunch of bananas, and was trying to escape."
"who should X but Y" is a dramatic way of saying X happened before revealing that Y is the subject of the action. It's not commonly used. Another form of this may be:
"Who should come running out of the market? None other than Bananas Gorilla!"
2 de junio de 2015
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