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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #3
The narrator recalls his childhood.
He lives with his mother, Peggotty the only maid of his house, his stern stepfather Mr. Murdstone, and Mr. Mudstone's eccentric elder sister in his late father's house.
Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone was her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servants had a man secreted somewhere on the premises. Under the influence of this delusion, she dived into the coal-cellar at the most untimely hours, and scarcely ever opened the door of a dark cupboard without clapping it to again, in the belief that she had got him.
Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, she was a perfect Lark in point of getting up. She was up (and, as I believe to his hour, looking for that man) before anybody in the house was stirring. Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open, but I could not concur in this idea, for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what role "and," plays here.
And I'd like to know if "opinion" is in apposition to "that" clause.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He lives with his mother, Peggotty the only maid of his house, his stern stepfather Mr. Murdstone, and Mr. Mudstone's eccentric elder sister in his late father's house.
Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone was her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servants had a man secreted somewhere on the premises. Under the influence of this delusion, she dived into the coal-cellar at the most untimely hours, and scarcely ever opened the door of a dark cupboard without clapping it to again, in the belief that she had got him.
Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, she was a perfect Lark in point of getting up. She was up (and, as I believe to his hour, looking for that man) before anybody in the house was stirring. Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open, but I could not concur in this idea, for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what role "and," plays here.
And I'd like to know if "opinion" is in apposition to "that" clause.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon I'd like to know what role "and," plays here. It connects "up" (out of bed) with "looking (for that man)". park sang joon And I'd like to know if "opinion" is in apposition to "that" clause.
- park sang joon I'd like to know what role "and," plays here.
- It connects "up" (out of bed) with "looking (for that man)".
- park sang joon And I'd like to know if "opinion" is in apposition to "that" clause.
- No.
- That would make the clause incomplete.
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park sang joonI'd like to know what role "and," plays here.It connects "up" (out of bed) with "looking (for that man)".
park sang joonAnd I'd like to know if "opinion" is in apposition to "that" clause.No. That would make the clause incomplete. You would have only Peggotty gave it as her opinion. "gave it as her
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Thank you, Mr.Jim, for your very helpful answer. 
But I didn't fully understand the structure "give it as her opinion that~."
But I didn't fully understand the structure "give it as her opinion that~."
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park sang joonI was wondering if I can take it that "it" is the object of "give"Yes. That's anticipatory it (or dummy it, or expletive it— there are several names for it), so the underlying sentence (awkward to the point of being ungrammatical) is
*She gave [that she even slept with one eye open] as her opinion.
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