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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analysis of a text #1
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He worships the eldest Miss Larkins of thirty years of age.
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Besides, I shall be one-and-twenty in no time almost. Two other points of reflection divide the empire of my mind with this. First, is the eldest Miss Larkins aware of my attachments. Secondly, What does she think of it, if she be aware of it? Sometimes I am persuaded she must be aware of it on account of my agitation and expression of my face when I meet her; then I look in the glass, and getting up that expression as nearly as I can, doubt it, and suspect it may not reveal what I mean. The state of her mind torments me next. Whether she despises me, or laughs at me, or flirts with me, or is dying for me (she don't look like it, but she may be doing it secretly), and cannot tell me so, because I cannot tell her what I feel myself.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what role the underlined nominal clause plays here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He worships the eldest Miss Larkins of thirty years of age.
............................
Besides, I shall be one-and-twenty in no time almost. Two other points of reflection divide the empire of my mind with this. First, is the eldest Miss Larkins aware of my attachments. Secondly, What does she think of it, if she be aware of it? Sometimes I am persuaded she must be aware of it on account of my agitation and expression of my face when I meet her; then I look in the glass, and getting up that expression as nearly as I can, doubt it, and suspect it may not reveal what I mean. The state of her mind torments me next. Whether she despises me, or laughs at me, or flirts with me, or is dying for me (she don't look like it, but she may be doing it secretly), and cannot tell me so, because I cannot tell her what I feel myself.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what role the underlined nominal clause plays here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon I'd like to know what role the underlined nominal clause plays here. It is a notional adjunct of 'the state of her mind' in the previous sentence.
- park sang joon I'd like to know what role the underlined nominal clause plays here.
- It is a notional adjunct of 'the state of her mind' in the previous sentence.
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park sang joonI'd like to know what role the underlined nominal clause plays here.It is a notional adjunct of 'the state of her mind' in the previous sentence.
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park sang joonI'd like to know what role the underlined nominal clause plays here.It's an indirect question after the unwritten "I don't know" or "I wonder" which would be present in a less literary style such as ordinary conversation.
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