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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He and his friend Steerforth just now made a surprise visit at his old nurse's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's
Mr. Peggotty says to the narrator and Steerforth about, I think, his cousin and adopted son Ham proposing to his niece Em'ly.
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Mr. Peggotty ruffled his hair again with both hands, as a further preparation for what he was going to say, and went on, with a hand upon each of his knees:
"There was a certain person as had know'd our Em'ly, from the time when her father was drowned, as had seen her constant, when a babby, when a young gal, when a woman. Not much of a person to look at, he warn't" said Mr. Peggotty, "something o' my own build?rough?a good deal o' the sou'-wester in him?wery salt?but, on the whole, a honest sort of a chap, with his art in the right place."
I thought I had ever seen Ham grin to anything like the extent to which he sat grinning at us now.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if I replace two "as" with the relative pronouns "who"s.
2. I'd like to know if the clause in blue is a double negative.
3. I'd like to know if "he was" implied before "something" and "he had" omitted before "a good deal."
4. And I'd like to know here "rough" means "approximately."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He and his friend Steerforth just now made a surprise visit at his old nurse's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's
Mr. Peggotty says to the narrator and Steerforth about, I think, his cousin and adopted son Ham proposing to his niece Em'ly.
........................
Mr. Peggotty ruffled his hair again with both hands, as a further preparation for what he was going to say, and went on, with a hand upon each of his knees:
"There was a certain person as had know'd our Em'ly, from the time when her father was drowned, as had seen her constant, when a babby, when a young gal, when a woman. Not much of a person to look at, he warn't" said Mr. Peggotty, "something o' my own build?rough?a good deal o' the sou'-wester in him?wery salt?but, on the whole, a honest sort of a chap, with his art in the right place."
I thought I had ever seen Ham grin to anything like the extent to which he sat grinning at us now.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if I replace two "as" with the relative pronouns "who"s.
2. I'd like to know if the clause in blue is a double negative.
3. I'd like to know if "he was" implied before "something" and "he had" omitted before "a good deal."
4. And I'd like to know here "rough" means "approximately."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon 1. I'd like to know if I replace two "as" with the relative pronouns "who"s. Yes, or 'that'.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know if I replace two "as" with the relative pronouns "who"s.
- Yes, or 'that'.
- park sang joon 2.
- I'd like to know if the clause in blue is a double negative.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if I replace two "as" with the relative pronouns "who"s.Yes, or 'that'.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know if the clause in blue is a double negative.Yes, of a sort. The tag is negative instead of affirmative, a style of the character's dialect.
park sang joon3. I'd
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for your so very kind answer. 
3. I'd like to know if "he was" implied before "somethin
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park sang joonI was wondering if we also can omit subject plus a general verb, not the verb "be" as in example.Sometimes. Remember that this is dialogue in a conversation. We elide much.
park sang joon it looks like Mr. Peggotty probably think the luck is an art.As I suspected—you are missing more than you ask about. Mr
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for your continuing support.
As I suspected—you are missing more than you ask about. Mr P
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park sang joonBut I can't ask everything I don't know.I know that—of course not; no student can. I was just curious. You seem to be asking more about grammar than meaning, but grammar is completely unimportant without meaning.
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