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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The protagonist, Philip, who was born with a club foot, moved in with his uncle Mr. Carey, the Vicar of Blackstable after his mother's death.
He came to London to work as an apprentice clerk for the accountant Mr. Carter.
There is the other apprentice clerk Watson, a son of a brewer.
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One evening Watson asked him to dinner at a restaurant and they went to a music-hall together; but he felt shy and uncomfortable. Watson talked all the time of things he did not care about, and while he looked upon Watson as a Philistine he could not help admiring him. He was angry because Watson obviously set no store on his culture, and with his way of taking himself at the estimate at which he saw others held him he began to despise the acquirements which till then had seemed to him not unimportant. He for the first time the humiliation of poverty. His uncle sent him fourteen pounds a month and he had had to buy a good many clothes.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I'd like to know if "set no store on his culture" means "he knows nothing of culture."
2. I'd like to know if the clause "he saw" is parenthetical.
3. And I'd like to know "acquirements" means "acquirements of culture."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He came to London to work as an apprentice clerk for the accountant Mr. Carter.
There is the other apprentice clerk Watson, a son of a brewer.
...........................
One evening Watson asked him to dinner at a restaurant and they went to a music-hall together; but he felt shy and uncomfortable. Watson talked all the time of things he did not care about, and while he looked upon Watson as a Philistine he could not help admiring him. He was angry because Watson obviously set no store on his culture, and with his way of taking himself at the estimate at which he saw others held him he began to despise the acquirements which till then had seemed to him not unimportant. He for the first time the humiliation of poverty. His uncle sent him fourteen pounds a month and he had had to buy a good many clothes.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I'd like to know if "set no store on his culture" means "he knows nothing of culture."
2. I'd like to know if the clause "he saw" is parenthetical.
3. And I'd like to know "acquirements" means "acquirements of culture."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. " No. Set (or lay or put) store by (or on).
- park sang joon 1.
- " No.
- Set (or lay or put) store by (or on).
- Consider to be of a particular degree of importance or value.
- park sang joon 2.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "set no store on his culture" means "he knows nothing of culture."No. Set (or lay or put) store by (or on). Consider to be of a particular degree of importance or value.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know if the clause "he saw" is parenthetical.What do you mean by 'parenthetical'?
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for another so very helpful answer from you. 
2. Let me ask it in other words.
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2. Let me ask it in other words.
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "at which others held him" modifes "the estimate,"Yes.
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