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Mitsuo23 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
The Article in Winnie the Pooh
Hi,
I was reading Winnie the Pooh to understand the article, the common noun and proper noun. And Here's my questions:
Quote from Chapter One.
"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin.
"That's the end of that one. There are others."
"About Pooh and Me?"
"And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?"
"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."
"That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump--"
a) Why this Me is capitalized?"
b) Wikipedia says "A Heffalump is a type of fictional elephant in the Winnie the Pooh" but why is the H capitalized? There should be many heffalumps so it should be a common noun like a rabbit.
Quote from Chapter Three.
THE PIGLET lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived int the middle of the house.
c) Why is there the? Piglet should be the name of a piglet here.
Thank you,
M
I was reading Winnie the Pooh to understand the article, the common noun and proper noun. And Here's my questions:
Quote from Chapter One.
"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin.
"That's the end of that one. There are others."
"About Pooh and Me?"
"And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you. Don't you remember?"
"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."
"That day when Pooh and Piglet tried to catch the Heffalump--"
a) Why this Me is capitalized?"
b) Wikipedia says "A Heffalump is a type of fictional elephant in the Winnie the Pooh" but why is the H capitalized? There should be many heffalumps so it should be a common noun like a rabbit.
Quote from Chapter Three.
THE PIGLET lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived int the middle of the house.
c) Why is there the? Piglet should be the name of a piglet here.
Thank you,
M
Top answer
A. " and was most likely written so in order to reveal that the author was aware he was making a grammatically incorrect mistake, and was doing so on purpose. B.
- A.
- " and was most likely written so in order to reveal that the author was aware he was making a grammatically incorrect mistake, and was doing so on purpose.
- B.
- Heffalump is capitalized because it is being used as the forename of the individual creature.
- C.
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A. "About Pooh and Me?" should have been written as, "Abut Pooh and I?" and was most likely written so in order to reveal that the author was aware he was making a grammatically incorrect mistake, and was doing so on purpose.
B. Heffalump is capitalized because it is being used as the forename of the individual creature.
C. The Piglet is known as Piglet by everyone, but to different Pigl
B. Heffalump is capitalized because it is being used as the forename of the individual creature.
C. The Piglet is known as Piglet by everyone, but to different Pigl
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AnonymousAbout Pooh and Me?" should have been written as, "Abut Pooh and I?"No. 'About Pooh and I' is as incorrect as 'about I'.
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Excuse me for reposting this. I've got no sufficient answers.
I was reading Winnie the Pooh to understand the article, related with common nouns and proper nouns. And Here's my questions:
Quote from Chapter One.
"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin.
"That's the end of that one. There are others."
"About Pooh and Me?"
"And Piglet an
I was reading Winnie the Pooh to understand the article, related with common nouns and proper nouns. And Here's my questions:
Quote from Chapter One.
"Is that the end of the story?" asked Christopher Robin.
"That's the end of that one. There are others."
"About Pooh and Me?"
"And Piglet an
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a) Nonstandard capitalisation – author's choice.
b) That article is inconsistent. The author(s) obviously could not decide. Capitalisation of species names (even real ones) is a grey area in English. More "complicated" names, or names that are also descriptive English phrases, tend to be capitalised, while mundane names tend not to be. Capitalising a fictional animal name makes it seem mo
b) That article is inconsistent. The author(s) obviously could not decide. Capitalisation of species names (even real ones) is a grey area in English. More "complicated" names, or names that are also descriptive English phrases, tend to be capitalised, while mundane names tend not to be. Capitalising a fictional animal name makes it seem mo
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You have to realize that this is a book for very small children.
People use a simplified and exaggerated type of language for small children, and the grammar reflects that usage. We would not use this kind of language for adult readers!
a) Why this Me is capitalized?" It is stressing that "Me" is a character in the story, someone as important as the othe
People use a simplified and exaggerated type of language for small children, and the grammar reflects that usage. We would not use this kind of language for adult readers!
a) Why this Me is capitalized?" It is stressing that "Me" is a character in the story, someone as important as the othe
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This is actually my first time to read a book for small children, in which small animals appear. So I haven't figured out the naming system yet.
After reading all the replies I have come to realize there are supposed to be many rabbits and piglets and Haffalumps in the story even though they don't actually appear, and all of them are named Rabbit, Piglet, Haffalump.
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mitsuwao23After reading all the replies I have come to realize there are supposed to be many rabbits and piglets and Haffalumps in the story even though they don't actually appear, and all of them are named Rabbit, Piglet, Haffalump.While in general English "rabbit" and "piglet" are generic animal names, in the book "Rabbit" and "Piglet" are specific characte
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mitsuwao23(b). Why does the sentence say "the" Heffalum? "a Heffalump" seems to make more sense to me.There is probably only one of these in the story line, so it would be "the Heffalump."
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To AlpheccaStars,
Thank you, it makes sense to me.
To GPY,
I understand that, but if there were only one Piglet you wouldn't say "the Piglet". It wouldn't make any point.
You say, "I met the Angelia Jolie" because you know there are other Angelia Jolies in the world. So the expression of "the Piglet" makes me think there's some Piglets and the author says "th
Thank you, it makes sense to me.
To GPY,
I understand that, but if there were only one Piglet you wouldn't say "the Piglet". It wouldn't make any point.
You say, "I met the Angelia Jolie" because you know there are other Angelia Jolies in the world. So the expression of "the Piglet" makes me think there's some Piglets and the author says "th
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mitsuwao23I understand that, but if there were only one Piglet you wouldn't say "the Piglet". It wouldn't make any point.I don't actually have a copy of the book to hand to refer to, but from what you quote, the book itself is not consistent (e.g. "And Piglet and Rabbit and all of you" vs. "THE PIGLET lived in a very grand house"). "Piglet" is a specific char
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