I saw this sentence online... Other examples, please?
Hey, community! I saw this sentence online, but it seems wrong for me, or at least not usual. Could you give another example using "I (or other pronouns) that..."? Thanks in advance. But the way correct my possible mistakes, please?
The sentence: "I that am curtailed of this fair proportion"
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alejandromesquita "I that am curtailed of this fair proportion" It sounds like some writing from more than a hundred years ago. It is very literary and the word usage is rather antiquated. I don't really understand it out of context.
- alejandromesquita "I that am curtailed of this fair proportion" It sounds like some writing from more than a hundred years ago.
- It is very literary and the word usage is rather antiquated.
- I don't really understand it out of context.
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alejandromesquita"I that am curtailed of this fair proportion"
It sounds like some writing from more than a hundred years ago. It is very literary and the word usage is rather antiquated. I don't really understand it out of context.
0alejandromesquita"I (or other pronouns) that..."?
The King James Bible (1611) has some examples with the pronoun "he"
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh b
0alejandromesquita I saw this sentence online
It is not a sentence. It is a fragment of the opening speech from Shakespeare's Richard III. That king was deformed, as legend has it, and he is bemoaning that, cataloguing his deficiencies (I that am this, I that am that). His turn of phrase is not possible in modern English. This very fragment is cited i
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