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Cho7712 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
inclined
In the short story 'The man of the house',
there is a part which describes the narrator's heightened anxiety for fear that his mother might get any worse than now.
And he says,
'...but this time I didn't stand at the front door to see the other fellows on their way to school. I should have been too inclined to envy them.'
What does that sentence in bold type mean?
there is a part which describes the narrator's heightened anxiety for fear that his mother might get any worse than now.
And he says,
'...but this time I didn't stand at the front door to see the other fellows on their way to school. I should have been too inclined to envy them.'
What does that sentence in bold type mean?
Top answer
I should have been too inclined to envy them . = I would have been very likely to envy them.
- I should have been too inclined to envy them .
- = I would have been very likely to envy them.
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I should have been too inclined to envy them. = I would have been very likely to envy them.
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Thank you for the answer. So it has nothing to do with the typical too...to construction as in 'too good to be true'.
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cho7712Thank you for the answer. So it has nothing to do with the typical too...to construction as in 'too good to be true'.No. 'Too' here means 'very'.
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