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Nikoo Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Sentence Structure
Hi, 
This is a part of Woolf's Night and Day. Could you please explain how the italicized part is related to the rest of the sentence?
"In times gone by, Mrs Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These being now either dead or secluded in their infirm glory, she made her house a meeting-place for her own relations, to whom she would lament the passing of the great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names."
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Nikoo
This is a part of Woolf's Night and Day. Could you please explain how the italicized part is related to the rest of the sentence?
"In times gone by, Mrs Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These being now either dead or secluded in their infirm glory, she made her house a meeting-place for her own relations, to whom she would lament the passing of the great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names."
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Nikoo
Top answer
Because the wonderful people she used to know (those mentioned in the first sentence—"these") were all either dead or bedridden, she used her house now for something other than entertaining them.
- Because the wonderful people she used to know (those mentioned in the first sentence—"these") were all either dead or bedridden, she used her house now for something other than entertaining them.
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Because the wonderful people she used to know (those mentioned in the first sentence—"these") were all either dead or bedridden, she used her house now for something other than entertaining them.
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enoonBecause the wonderful people she used to know (those mentioned in the first sentence—"these") were all either dead or bedridden, she used her house now for something other than entertaining them.Thank you, enoon
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Attitude: How was she to maintain her connection to greatness if not in a physical way as before but through revival of spirit and so in this new way she was willing to achieve this connection. Thanks
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NikooAre there any words left out? I can think of starting the sentence like this, "With these being now either dead or..." or "Now that these were either dead or...".Thanks again.There are no words left out. Woolf has used an unaugmented introductory participial clause with an included subject. Such a clause is a normal part of English. "Jimmy Bob being a bi
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