Hello to everyone! Could you clarify for me please, whether the sentece is correct or not?
"Is it an angel I see before me?"
Is the preposition BEFORE correct here? I've heard it in a movie in English and I'm really confused. I thought it is more correct to say IN FRONT OF ME, since "before" refers to the passage of time, no?)
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From Macbeth, by one William Shakespeare:
“Is this a dagger which I see before me..”
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The sentence is correct, but it is very poetic. You probably won't hear it from a person in day-to-day conversation. :)
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Hi Alexandra,
Yes, it is correct.
It has a very pleasing and melodic sound. So great for poetry and theater.
Sometimes in poetry and music we can rearrange the structure of a sentence to sound more pleasant.
Before can also mean in "In front of" and therefore, "Is it an angel I see in front of me?".
Take care.
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Thank you to everyone. Everything is clear now)
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It's kind of a common way to sound poetic or romantic.
In usual language, we'd just say 'is that an angel?" or "are you an angel?"
But "is it an angel I see before me?" sounds very poetic and charming.
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