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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #1
This novel is set in a Chinese village before World War One.
The protagonist Wang Lung got married to a woman.
Hitherto he had had to prepare the meals when he came in, tired though he was, unless the old man grew hungry out of time and stirred up a little meal or baked a piece of flat, unleavened bread to roll about a stem of garlic.
[The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck]
1. I'd like to know what "out of time" means here.
2. I'd like to know if "to roll about a stem of garlic" imply "Wang Lung would roll a piece of bread about a stem of garlic."
Thank you in advance for your help.
The protagonist Wang Lung got married to a woman.
Hitherto he had had to prepare the meals when he came in, tired though he was, unless the old man grew hungry out of time and stirred up a little meal or baked a piece of flat, unleavened bread to roll about a stem of garlic.
[The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck]
1. I'd like to know what "out of time" means here.
2. I'd like to know if "to roll about a stem of garlic" imply "Wang Lung would roll a piece of bread about a stem of garlic."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. Not at the usual/expected time. 2.
- 1.
- Not at the usual/expected time.
- 2.
- The old man would roll a piece of bread about a stem of garlic.
- The old man isn't **** Lung, is he?
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1. Not at the usual/expected time.
2. The old man would roll a piece of bread about a stem of garlic. The old man isn't **** Lung, is he?
2. The old man would roll a piece of bread about a stem of garlic. The old man isn't **** Lung, is he?
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Thank you, GPY, for your So very helpful answer. 
2. No, the old man is **** Lung's father.
Then I take it that "to rol
2. No, the old man is **** Lung's father.
Then I take it that "to rol
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park sang joonThen I take it that "to roll" is the adverbial result to-infinitive meaning "and he rolled," not the adjective to-infinitive.Is it right?I find this a slightly puzzling question. It seems at first that "to roll about a stem of garlic" describes the reason why he baked the bread, but if we substitute the usual "in order to", we get "(he) b
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