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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The protagonist says about his birth.

The protagonist's great-aunt, Miss Betsey is at the parlor.
His mother is about to give birth to him, and the doctor Mr.Chillip is on standby.


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Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a very dragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as a credible witness, reported next day that, happening to peep in at the parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried by Miss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, and pounced upon before he could make his escape. That there were now occasional sounds of feet and voices overhead which he inferred the cotton did not exclude, from the circumstance of his evidently being clutched by the lady as a victim on whom to expend her superabundant agitation when the sounds were loudest. That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar (as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times, shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped his ears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwise tousled and maltreated him.

[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]

I'd like to know if the three "that" clauses are the objects of "reported."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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" Yes. Speaking loosely, you may call them objects, though a more accurate term is "complements" of 'reported'. CJ

  • " Yes.
  • Speaking loosely, you may call them objects, though a more accurate term is "complements" of 'reported'.
  • CJ
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park sang joonI'd like to know if the three "that" clauses are the objects of "reported."
Yes. Speaking loosely, you may call them objects, though a more accurate term is "complements" of 'reported'.

CJ

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