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Desdemona Posted 18 years ago
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Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in ...
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01 b 01 u 00 Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse’s family 02 u 00 , 00 less as a governess than as a friend 00 , very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. 02 b 00 02 br
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00 ( from 00 Emma by Jane Austen) 02 br
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00 1. Is the underlined inverted part of the sentence found often in daily speech? Why is it inverted so long as there is not a precedeing negation. 02 br
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00 2. The part of the sentence highlighted in blue background colour, what does it mean? 02 br
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00 3. Again for the highlighted part, could we replace "less.....than" structure with "rather as a governess than as a friend" 0-
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01 b 01 u 00 Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse’s family 02 u 00 , 00 less as a governess than as a friend 00 , very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. 02 b 00 02 br
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00 ( from 00 Emma by Jane Austen) 02 br
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00 1. Is the underlined inverted part of the sentence found often in daily speech? Why is it inverted so long as there is not a precedeing negation. 02 br
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00 2. The part of the sentence highlighted in blue background colour, what does it mean? 02 br
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00 3. Again for the highlighted part, could we replace "less.....than" structure with "rather as a governess than as a friend" 0-
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than" structure with "rather as a governess than as a friend"» 02 br 02 br 00 That'd invert the meaning. 0-
- than" structure with "rather as a governess than as a friend"» 02 br 02 br 00 That'd invert the meaning.
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0 «Why is it inverted so long as there is not a precedeing negation.» 02 br
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00 To put emphasis on the duration. 02 br
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00 «The part of the sentence highlighted in blue background colour, what does it mean?» 02 br
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00 Formally she worked as a governess but actually everybdy thought of her as friend, not just a worker. 02 br
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00 To put emphasis on the duration. 02 br
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00 «The part of the sentence highlighted in blue background colour, what does it mean?» 02 br
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00 Formally she worked as a governess but actually everybdy thought of her as friend, not just a worker. 02 br
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0 >less as a governess than as a friend 02 br
00 You could say 02 br
00 more as a friend than as a governess 0-
00 You could say 02 br
00 more as a friend than as a governess 0-
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