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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his childhood; now he is at the boarding school near London.
Today is his birthday, and he is informed of the news his mother is dead by wife of the school's owner at the parlor.
"She is dead."
There was no need to tell me so. I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
She was very kind to me. She kept me there all day, and left me alone sometimes, and I cried, and wore myself to sleep, and awoke and cried again. When I could cry no more, I began to think, and the the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know if "I was" is omitted after "felt."
I'd like to know if "was" is implied after "my grief.
And I'd like to know what "for" means here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Today is his birthday, and he is informed of the news his mother is dead by wife of the school's owner at the parlor.
"She is dead."
There was no need to tell me so. I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
She was very kind to me. She kept me there all day, and left me alone sometimes, and I cried, and wore myself to sleep, and awoke and cried again. When I could cry no more, I began to think, and the the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know if "I was" is omitted after "felt."
I'd like to know if "was" is implied after "my grief.
And I'd like to know what "for" means here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" Inasmuch as "I felt an orphan" is valid English by itself, nothing is "omitted". "I felt like an orphan" seems closer to the original meaning than "I felt I was an orphan", though the latter is not a million miles away. park sang joon I'd like to know if "was" is implied after "my grief.
- " Inasmuch as "I felt an orphan" is valid English by itself, nothing is "omitted".
- "I felt like an orphan" seems closer to the original meaning than "I felt I was an orphan", though the latter is not a million miles away.
- park sang joon I'd like to know if "was" is implied after "my grief.
- Yes.
- park sang joon And I'd like to know what "for" means here.
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "I was" is omitted after "felt."Inasmuch as "I felt an orphan" is valid English by itself, nothing is "omitted". "I felt like an orphan" seems closer to the original meaning than "I felt I was an orphan", though the latter is not a million miles away.
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