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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The protagonist recalls his childhood.
He and Peggotty, the only maid of his house came to Yarmouth, her hometown and visited her brother, Mr. Peggotty's house.
Em'ly is Mr. Peggotty's cousin, whose father was drown-dead and the protagonist came to like her.
We were the admiration of Mrs. Gummidge and Peggotty, who used to whisper of an evening when we sat lovingly, on our little locker side by side, "Lor! wasn't it beautiful!" Mr. peggotty smiled at us from behind his pipe, and Ham grinned all the evening and did nothing else. They had something of the sort of pleasure in us, I suppose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know if both "They had something of the sort of pleasure in us" and "that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum" are the objects of "suppose."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He and Peggotty, the only maid of his house came to Yarmouth, her hometown and visited her brother, Mr. Peggotty's house.
Em'ly is Mr. Peggotty's cousin, whose father was drown-dead and the protagonist came to like her.
We were the admiration of Mrs. Gummidge and Peggotty, who used to whisper of an evening when we sat lovingly, on our little locker side by side, "Lor! wasn't it beautiful!" Mr. peggotty smiled at us from behind his pipe, and Ham grinned all the evening and did nothing else. They had something of the sort of pleasure in us, I suppose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know if both "They had something of the sort of pleasure in us" and "that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum" are the objects of "suppose."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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" No. Reordering we have I suppose (that) t hey had in us something of the sort of pleasure that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum . 'had in us' ~ 'got from us' The explicit that -clause modifies 'pleasure'.
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- Reordering we have I suppose (that) t hey had in us something of the sort of pleasure that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum .
- 'had in us' ~ 'got from us' The explicit that -clause modifies 'pleasure'.
- CJ
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park sang joonI'd like to know if both "They had something of the sort of pleasure in us" and "that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum" are the objects of "suppose."No. Reordering we have
I suppose (that) they had in us something of the sort of pleasure
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