By Literature, Constructions

It's not wrong. Normally in English sentences are ordered "Subject (S), Verb (V), Indirect Object (IO), Direct Object (DO)" but can run OSV, and, where pronouns are used in substitution of either the subject or object (e.g. your sentence) there are no word order constraints so OVS...

Hi all, Can someone check and correct this letter please. In order to get a more usual construction in English. Thanks in advance, poet. I would like to use this letter as an opportunity to share with you my music tastes as well as my readings. Perhaps you are not very familiar with the...

that he will win. If you did, it would support the claim that but means only or merely. But I think it will be hard to find examples like that. CJ

Herman Melville - The Confidence Manhttp://www.online-literature.com/melville/confidence-man/10"You would not hint that the colored cravats would be so bungling as to lose, and the dark cravats so dextrous as to cheat? Sour imaginations, my dear sir. Dismiss them. To little purpose have you...

HERMAN MELVILLE - THE CONFIDENCE MANhttp://www.online-literature.com/melville/confidence-man/9"Let the unfortunate man be his own brother. What are you dragging him in for all the time? One would think you didn't care to register any transfers, or dispose of any stock--mind running on...

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...