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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
A parenthetical clause
The author says about a writer writing penny novelettes
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There were one or two publishers who made a specialty of that sort of thing, and she had as much work as she could do. It was ill-paid, she received fifteen pounds for a story of thirty thousand words; but she was satisfied.
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Besides, she walked on at various theatres where they wanted supers and earned by this when in work from sixteen shillings to a guinea a week.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
I'd like to know if "when in work" is parenthetical.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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There were one or two publishers who made a specialty of that sort of thing, and she had as much work as she could do. It was ill-paid, she received fifteen pounds for a story of thirty thousand words; but she was satisfied.
..............................................
Besides, she walked on at various theatres where they wanted supers and earned by this when in work from sixteen shillings to a guinea a week.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
I'd like to know if "when in work" is parenthetical.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon I'd like to know if "when in work" is parenthetical. It would need parentheses in that case. It is an adverbial.
- park sang joon I'd like to know if "when in work" is parenthetical.
- It would need parentheses in that case.
- It is an adverbial.
- At first I thought that it was completely unnecessary, but the writer might be thereby indicating that other times she was unpaid for supernumerary roles.
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "when in work" is parenthetical.It would need parentheses in that case. It is an adverbial. At first I thought that it was completely unnecessary, but the writer might be thereby indicating that other times she was unpaid for supernumerary roles.
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