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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a convoluted text #1
The narrator recalls his childhood.
He was forced to work for his own living for Mr. Murdstone's friend Mr. Quinion at London by his stepfather.
He lodges at Mr.Micawber's and goes to his work Murdstone and Grinby's.
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Yet I held some station at Murdstone and Gringy's too. Besides that, Mr. Quinion did what a careless man so occupied, and dealing with a thing so anomalous, could, to treat me as one upon from the rest, I never said, to man or boy, how it was that I came to be there, or gave the least indication of being sorry that I was there. That I suffered in secret, and that I suffered exquisitely, no one ever knew but I. How much I suffered, it is, as I have said already, utterly beyond my power to tell. But I kept my own counsel, and I did my work. I knew from the first that If I could not do my work as well as any of the rest, I could not hold myself above slight and contempt.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "did" means "get."
2. I'd like to know if "what" means "some."
3. And I was wondering why it is "dealing," not "dealt."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He was forced to work for his own living for Mr. Murdstone's friend Mr. Quinion at London by his stepfather.
He lodges at Mr.Micawber's and goes to his work Murdstone and Grinby's.
..............................
Yet I held some station at Murdstone and Gringy's too. Besides that, Mr. Quinion did what a careless man so occupied, and dealing with a thing so anomalous, could, to treat me as one upon from the rest, I never said, to man or boy, how it was that I came to be there, or gave the least indication of being sorry that I was there. That I suffered in secret, and that I suffered exquisitely, no one ever knew but I. How much I suffered, it is, as I have said already, utterly beyond my power to tell. But I kept my own counsel, and I did my work. I knew from the first that If I could not do my work as well as any of the rest, I could not hold myself above slight and contempt.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "did" means "get."
2. I'd like to know if "what" means "some."
3. And I was wondering why it is "dealing," not "dealt."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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(This overlaps with my previous answer. ) 1/2. No.
- (This overlaps with my previous answer.
- ) 1/2.
- No.
- ) "Mr.
- ", but instead of "he" there is the noun phrase "a careless man so occupied, and dealing with a thing so anomalous".
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(This overlaps with my previous answer. I may be answering your questions in reverse order!)
1/2. No. (How could "did" mean "get"??)
"Mr. Quinion did what he could to treat me ...", but instead of "he" there is the noun phrase "a careless man so occupied, and dealing with a thing so anomalous".
"so occupied" and "dealing with a thing so anomalous" modify "a careless man"
1/2. No. (How could "did" mean "get"??)
"Mr. Quinion did what he could to treat me ...", but instead of "he" there is the noun phrase "a careless man so occupied, and dealing with a thing so anomalous".
"so occupied" and "dealing with a thing so anomalous" modify "a careless man"
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Thank you, GPY, for your so very kind and helpful answers as ever. 
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