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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #2
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
After the funeral of his old nurse Peggotty's husband, he visited Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's house to dinner.
Mr. Peggotty's nephew, adapted son Ham was due to come with his niece, Ham's fiance Em'ly but Ham came to alone.
Em'ly fled with the narrator' best friend Steerforth with leaving a letter to Ham.
Mrs. Gummidge was Mr. Peggotty's late best friend's wife and after her husband's death she lives off Mr. Peggotty.
What a change in Mrs. Gummidge in a little time! She was another woman. She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration. The work she did that day! There were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse - as oars, nets, sails, cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr. Peggotty, and been well paid in being asked to do it, yet she persisted, all day long, in toiling under weights that she was quite unequal to, and fagging to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the phrase in blue means "Since there is surely a pair of working hands on all that shore who would have labored hard for Mr. Peggotty and been well paid in being asked to do it."
2. I think the clause in red is the main clause of the underlined concessive clause.
So I was wondering why there is "yet."
Thank you in advance for your help.
After the funeral of his old nurse Peggotty's husband, he visited Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's house to dinner.
Mr. Peggotty's nephew, adapted son Ham was due to come with his niece, Ham's fiance Em'ly but Ham came to alone.
Em'ly fled with the narrator' best friend Steerforth with leaving a letter to Ham.
Mrs. Gummidge was Mr. Peggotty's late best friend's wife and after her husband's death she lives off Mr. Peggotty.
What a change in Mrs. Gummidge in a little time! She was another woman. She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration. The work she did that day! There were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse - as oars, nets, sails, cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr. Peggotty, and been well paid in being asked to do it, yet she persisted, all day long, in toiling under weights that she was quite unequal to, and fagging to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the phrase in blue means "Since there is surely a pair of working hands on all that shore who would have labored hard for Mr. Peggotty and been well paid in being asked to do it."
2. I think the clause in red is the main clause of the underlined concessive clause.
So I was wondering why there is "yet."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. I'd like to know if the phrase in blue means "Since there is surely a pair of working hands on all that shore who would have labored hard for Mr. " Yes, but it means many pairs.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know if the phrase in blue means "Since there is surely a pair of working hands on all that shore who would have labored hard for Mr.
- " Yes, but it means many pairs.
- park sang joon 2.
- I think the clause in red is the main clause of the underlined concessive clause.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if the phrase in blue means "Since there is surely a pair of working hands on all that shore who would have labored hard for Mr. Peggotty and been well paid in being asked to do it."Yes, but it means many pairs.
park sang joon2. I think the clause in red is the main clause of the underlined concessive
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for your so very helpful answer. 
We sometimes add it in unnecessarily, as we do with 'stil
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