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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James Steerforth, leaving her fiance Ham behind.
Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty has sought for her niece Emily after her leaving.
At length, he found out her niece by her friend Martha's help, and determined to emigrate to Australia with her niece.
And the narrator visited Ham to break the information, with Mr. Peggotty.
It felt as if Ham want to talke to him alone the night, so he resolved to give him a chance tomorrow evening.
Now they talks to one another on the way home from Ham's work.
As I had a sorrowful wish to see the old place once more, before it was locked up, I engaged to meet them there in the evening. But I so arranged it, as that I should meet Ham first.
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'I thankee agen, sir,' he said, heartily shaking hands. 'I know wheer you're a-going. Good-bye!'
With a slight wave of his hand, as though to explain to me that he could not enter the old place, he turned away. As I looked after his figure, crossing the waste in the moonlight, I saw him turn his face towards a strip of silvery light upon the sea, and pass on, looking at it, until he was a shadow in the distance.
The door of the boat-house stood open when I approached; and, on entering, I found it emptied of all its furniture
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "as though/ as if" introduces to-infinitive.
2. And I'd like to know if "its furniture" is the subject of "emptied."
Thank you in advance for your help.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James Steerforth, leaving her fiance Ham behind.
Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty has sought for her niece Emily after her leaving.
At length, he found out her niece by her friend Martha's help, and determined to emigrate to Australia with her niece.
And the narrator visited Ham to break the information, with Mr. Peggotty.
It felt as if Ham want to talke to him alone the night, so he resolved to give him a chance tomorrow evening.
Now they talks to one another on the way home from Ham's work.
Chapter 51 THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
.................................As I had a sorrowful wish to see the old place once more, before it was locked up, I engaged to meet them there in the evening. But I so arranged it, as that I should meet Ham first.
.................................
'I thankee agen, sir,' he said, heartily shaking hands. 'I know wheer you're a-going. Good-bye!'
With a slight wave of his hand, as though to explain to me that he could not enter the old place, he turned away. As I looked after his figure, crossing the waste in the moonlight, I saw him turn his face towards a strip of silvery light upon the sea, and pass on, looking at it, until he was a shadow in the distance.
The door of the boat-house stood open when I approached; and, on entering, I found it emptied of all its furniture
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "as though/ as if" introduces to-infinitive.
2. And I'd like to know if "its furniture" is the subject of "emptied."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon 1. I'd like to know if "as though/ as if" introduces to-infinitive. Yes.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know if "as though/ as if" introduces to-infinitive.
- Yes.
- park sang joon 2.
- And I'd like to know if "its furniture" is the subject of "emptied.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "as though/ as if" introduces to-infinitive.Yes.
park sang joon2. And I'd like to know if "its furniture" is the subject of "emptied.No. 'It' (= the boathouse) is emptied.
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for another so very kind answer from you.
2. I was such a fool.
2. I was such a fool.
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