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64801965 Posted 10 years ago
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There belongs to the history of fifteenth century English literature a very pretty story not to be found in literary text books.
Do here 2 subjects come out? Maybe the one of them is adverbial to the sentence? Right?
Do here 2 subjects come out? Maybe the one of them is adverbial to the sentence? Right?
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") of saying "a very pretty story ... belongs to the history of fifteenth century English literature". So the subject is logically "a very pretty story".
- ") of saying "a very pretty story ...
- belongs to the history of fifteenth century English literature".
- So the subject is logically "a very pretty story".
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This is an inverted way (using the device "There ...") of saying "a very pretty story ... belongs to the history of fifteenth century English literature". So the subject is logically "a very pretty story".
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