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Contraposition Posted 11 years ago
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By his sweater

Hello. Could you please help me to read the passage below?

1. What does 'you're not sitting with the prefects today, either' mean?
2. What does 'by the sweater' mean? 'By' has too many meanings for me to decide its meaning here.
  

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contraposition 1. What does 'you're not sitting with the prefects today, either' mean? It means just that: he is not sitting in the prefect section of the meeting or whatever they are talking about; instead, he is sitting with his genetic or spiritual family (whichever applies).

— Mister Micawber

  • contraposition 1.
  • What does 'you're not sitting with the prefects today, either' mean?
  • It means just that: he is not sitting in the prefect section of the meeting or whatever they are talking about; instead, he is sitting with his genetic or spiritual family (whichever applies).
  • contraposition .
  • What does 'by the sweater' mean?
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contraposition1. What does 'you're not sitting with the prefects today, either' mean?
It means just that: he is not sitting in the prefect section of the meeting or whatever they are talking about; instead, he is sitting with his genetic or spiritual family (whichever applies).
contraposition. What does 'by the sweater' mean?
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Mister MicawberIt just means the garment—the 'lumpy sweater' that he has been forced to wear, his arms not yet in its sleeves.
What I wonder is the meaning of the preposition 'by'.
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contrapositionthe meaning of the preposition 'by'.
It is the preposition of agency in the passive-voiced nonfinite clause: the sweater pinned his arms.
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