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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The tense agreement
Peggotty is the only maid of the protagonist's house.
THE FIRST OBJECTS THAT ASSUME A DISTINCT PRESENCE before me, as I look far back into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all, and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their whole neighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and red that I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know why it is "assume," not "assumed."
Thank you in advance for your help.
THE FIRST OBJECTS THAT ASSUME A DISTINCT PRESENCE before me, as I look far back into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all, and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their whole neighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and red that I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know why it is "assume," not "assumed."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" Because he is 'looking back', and is in that 'now'.
- " Because he is 'looking back', and is in that 'now'.
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park sang joon'd like to know why it is "assume," not "assumed."Because he is 'looking back', and is in that 'now'.
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