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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #4
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.
Mr. Peggotty's nephew, adapted son Ham and his niece, Ham's fiance Em'ly are due to come.
Mr. Peggottys always lights a candle for lighting the way Em'ly comes home along.
Now Mr. Peggotty is talking to Mrs. Gummidge who lives off him.
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'Theer!'said Mr. Peggotty, cheerily.'Theer we are, Missis Gummidge!' Mrs. Gummidge slightly groaned. 'Lighted up, accordin' to custom! You're a wonderin' what that's fur, sir! Well, it's fur our little Em'ly. You see, the path ain't over light or cheerful arter dark; and when I'm here at the hour as she's a comin' home, I puts the light in the winder. That, you see,' said Mr. Peggotty, bending over me with great glee, 'meets two objects. She says, says Em'ly, "Theer's home!" she says. And likewise, says Em'ly, "My uncle's theer!" Fur if I ain't theer, I never have no light showed.'
'You're a baby!' said Peggotty; very fond of him for it, if she thought so.
'Well,' returned Mr. Peggotty, standing with his legs pretty wide apart, and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction, as he looked alternately at us and at the fire. 'I doen't know but I am. Not, you see, to look at.'
'Not azackly,' observed Peggotty.
'No,' laughed Mr. Peggotty, 'not to look at, but to - to consider on, you know. I doen't care, bless you! Now I tell you. When I go a looking and looking about that theer pritty house of our Em'ly's, I'm - I'm Gormed,' said Mr. Peggotty, with sudden emphasis - 'theer! I can't say more - if I doen't feel as if the littlest things was her, a'most. I takes 'em up and I put 'em down, and I touches of 'em as delicate as if they was our Em'ly. So 'tis with her little bonnets and that. I couldn't see one on 'em rough used a purpose - not fur the whole wureld. There's a babby fur you, in the form of a great Sea Porkypine!' said Mr. Peggotty, relieving his earnestness with a roar of laughter.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the subject of "to consider on" is Mr. Peggoty and the object of it is Em'ly.
2. I'd like to know why it is "pritty house of our Em'ly's," not "our En'ly's pritty house."
3. I'd like to know why it is "on," not "of."
4. And I'd like to know why there is "a purpose" after "rough used."
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.
Mr. Peggotty's nephew, adapted son Ham and his niece, Ham's fiance Em'ly are due to come.
Mr. Peggottys always lights a candle for lighting the way Em'ly comes home along.
Now Mr. Peggotty is talking to Mrs. Gummidge who lives off him.
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'Theer!'said Mr. Peggotty, cheerily.'Theer we are, Missis Gummidge!' Mrs. Gummidge slightly groaned. 'Lighted up, accordin' to custom! You're a wonderin' what that's fur, sir! Well, it's fur our little Em'ly. You see, the path ain't over light or cheerful arter dark; and when I'm here at the hour as she's a comin' home, I puts the light in the winder. That, you see,' said Mr. Peggotty, bending over me with great glee, 'meets two objects. She says, says Em'ly, "Theer's home!" she says. And likewise, says Em'ly, "My uncle's theer!" Fur if I ain't theer, I never have no light showed.'
'You're a baby!' said Peggotty; very fond of him for it, if she thought so.
'Well,' returned Mr. Peggotty, standing with his legs pretty wide apart, and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction, as he looked alternately at us and at the fire. 'I doen't know but I am. Not, you see, to look at.'
'Not azackly,' observed Peggotty.
'No,' laughed Mr. Peggotty, 'not to look at, but to - to consider on, you know. I doen't care, bless you! Now I tell you. When I go a looking and looking about that theer pritty house of our Em'ly's, I'm - I'm Gormed,' said Mr. Peggotty, with sudden emphasis - 'theer! I can't say more - if I doen't feel as if the littlest things was her, a'most. I takes 'em up and I put 'em down, and I touches of 'em as delicate as if they was our Em'ly. So 'tis with her little bonnets and that. I couldn't see one on 'em rough used a purpose - not fur the whole wureld. There's a babby fur you, in the form of a great Sea Porkypine!' said Mr. Peggotty, relieving his earnestness with a roar of laughter.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the subject of "to consider on" is Mr. Peggoty and the object of it is Em'ly.
2. I'd like to know why it is "pritty house of our Em'ly's," not "our En'ly's pritty house."
3. I'd like to know why it is "on," not "of."
4. And I'd like to know why there is "a purpose" after "rough used."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
My answers: 1. The focus of the sentence is Mr. Peggotty's "baby" qualities.
- My answers: 1.
- The focus of the sentence is Mr.
- Peggotty's "baby" qualities.
- Emily is not involved.
- It is his babyness that is something to think about ["consider on"].
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My answers:
1. The focus of the sentence is Mr. Peggotty's "baby" qualities. Emily is not involved. It is his babyness that is something to think about ["consider on"].
2. The two are equivalent. Either is good. So it is simply a matter of style.
3. It should be "of" but this is another example of Mr. Peggotty's bad grammar. (He is from the lower class and
1. The focus of the sentence is Mr. Peggotty's "baby" qualities. Emily is not involved. It is his babyness that is something to think about ["consider on"].
2. The two are equivalent. Either is good. So it is simply a matter of style.
3. It should be "of" but this is another example of Mr. Peggotty's bad grammar. (He is from the lower class and
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