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FULL EXTRACT:Meditation over kindness received seemed to have softened him something, too, it may be, beyond what might, perhaps, have been looked for from one whose unwonted self-respect in the hour of need, and in the act of being aided, might have appeared to some not wholly unlike pride out...

"Never you mind how it is"--with a sneer; "but all horses aint virtuous, no more than all men kind; and come close to, and much dealt with, some things are catching. When you find me a virtuous jockey, I will find you a benevolent wise...

"No doubt" with a grin"some such pitiless man as has lost his piety in much the same way that the jockey loses his honesty."http://www.online-literature.com/melville/confidence-man/3/I don't understand this passage or should I say this construction, especially what...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

Kindly Help me in modifying with the errors in the following sentences Instructions: Please complete the exercises given below. Then rename the file by adding “_your full name”. e.g., Editing Test_TeenaGunt Use the “Track changes” option. This will indicate any insertion...

You need parallelism between the constructions, thus is. >When a new monster created Bad English. It's like the monster created something ... Don't invent things. Read the good literature and apply the patterns there.

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...

Because it is correct. Just listen to correct sources and learn those constructions by heart/rote. You're trying to rationalize everything, and you're in the same spot, IMO, where you were one year ago, sorry. By now, you should have been in a position to lecture us on such issues....

Dear teachers,Would you please answer my queries hereafter?I find the way children spend hours just watching TV quite depressing. It can't be good for their imagination. I'm not very keen on 1. watching myself. I'd rather read a good book. I wish children would switch off the TV and 2. learn to...

MrPedantic wrote:Here are some examples from English literature:I recognize that some people at some times in the past have used so that in what was considered to be an acceptable fashion. Your citations seem to be from earlier generations. I recognize that some people, yourself included,...