Change Is Replacement

- 1 After the experiment, the water was gone, and hydrogen and oxygen was in its place.

- 2 Under hypnosis, the sweet old lady was replaced by a scheming criminal.

- 3 The man I had known was gone, and in his place was an aging fool.

- 4 The jell-o liquid had been replaced by a rubbery mass.

Related to PROPERTIES ARE POSSESSIONS

Note: the source material, that we understand it as something different that has taken the source material's place.

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