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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Tow quotes from LOTR
Reading LOTR, I find that some of the sentences are beyond my grammatical knowledge and appears incorrect to me. As a linguist, Sir. Tolkien cannot be wrong for sure.
Quote 1: "We bring them back now, even as we promised him."
It is clear that "even as" here does not mean "something is happening at the exactly same time". So what does this "even" here mean? An emphasis?
Quote 2: "; but any weapon that you bear, be it only a staff, you must leave on the threshold."
To me, "be it only a staff" is clause, which should have a complete form as "even if it is only a staff". Here since "if" is omitted, "be" shall be changed into "being" to avoid that there are two verbs without conjunction in one sentence, right?
I thought it should be: "; but any weapon that you bear, being it only a staff, you must leave on the threshold."
Could anyone help me?
Quote 1: "We bring them back now, even as we promised him."
It is clear that "even as" here does not mean "something is happening at the exactly same time". So what does this "even" here mean? An emphasis?
Quote 2: "; but any weapon that you bear, be it only a staff, you must leave on the threshold."
To me, "be it only a staff" is clause, which should have a complete form as "even if it is only a staff". Here since "if" is omitted, "be" shall be changed into "being" to avoid that there are two verbs without conjunction in one sentence, right?
I thought it should be: "; but any weapon that you bear, being it only a staff, you must leave on the threshold."
Could anyone help me?
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Anonymous So what does this "even" here mean? just; exactly Anonymous be it only a staff This is explained in another post where I replied to the same question. Please do not post the same question multiple times.
- Anonymous So what does this "even" here mean?
- just; exactly Anonymous be it only a staff This is explained in another post where I replied to the same question.
- Please do not post the same question multiple times.
- It makes it difficult for everyone.
- CJ
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AnonymousSo what does this "even" here mean?just; exactly
Anonymousbe it only a staffThis is explained in another post where I replied to the same question.
Please do not post the same question multiple times. It makes it difficult for everyone.
CJ
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