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Originally posted by h.u.r.r.i.c.a.n.e
your reply is flawless but there's a misunderstanding.
It's just an awkwardly worded lyric.
Usually similes are like + verb/noun or subject + verb
It's a cluttered simile when you're going to use like + verb + noun + another verb + yet ANOTHER verb + noun
like like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer
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But "to solve" is an infinitive
So "trying to solve" has the present progressive verb of "trying" with the infinitive "to solve," which is one predicate. And I just don't agree that having another verb is bad. Honestly have no idea where that's coming from. She can't say it's like "trying to solve a crossword" and leave it at that.
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind,
wanting to start again?
That has two verbs + one infinitive as well
