I don't understand this sentence. If we found a boy, how can we know he was "fast" asleep...
It's either:
"We found the boy asleep."
or
"The boy was fast asleep."
but the 2 are incompatible...
Do you understand what "fast asleep" means? The two are not incompatible.
>Do you understand what "fast asleep" means? The two are not incompatible.
How can you know he was "fast" asleep if you just "found" that boy asleep ?
I'm not a native but I did learn that "fast asleep" is a set phrase to mean "totally asleep"
>I'm not a native but I did learn that "fast asleep" is a set phrase to mean "totally asleep"
Yes. I realised that, since.
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