Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a sentence #2
The narrator recalls his childhood.
He came to Salem House, the boarding school near London in which to live at the vacation period.
So, he lives alone with a master of the school Mr. Mell in the school.
Mr. Creakle is the owner of this school.
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I had led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden leg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr. Creakle and the boys. I was not mistaken, for the mop came into the schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, who lived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days, during which we were always in the way of two or three young women, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were so continually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as if Salem House had been a great snuff-box.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I think the subject of "got on how we could (live)" is "I."
I'd like to know it is right.
And I'd like to know what "I/we got on how we could (live)" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He came to Salem House, the boarding school near London in which to live at the vacation period.
So, he lives alone with a master of the school Mr. Mell in the school.
Mr. Creakle is the owner of this school.
...........................
I had led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden leg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr. Creakle and the boys. I was not mistaken, for the mop came into the schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, who lived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days, during which we were always in the way of two or three young women, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were so continually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as if Salem House had been a great snuff-box.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I think the subject of "got on how we could (live)" is "I."
I'd like to know it is right.
And I'd like to know what "I/we got on how we could (live)" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
The subject of "got on how we could" is "Mr. Mell and me". " Is this clear?
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The subject of "got on how we could" is "Mr. Mell and me". "We" not "I."
We "got on how we could" means "we managed as best we could."
Is this clear?
We "got on how we could" means "we managed as best we could."
Is this clear?
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park sang joonI think the subject of "got on how we could (live)" is "I."Actually, Mr. Mell and I.
park sang joonAnd I'd like to know what "I/we got on how we could (live)" means.We managed to do whatever we had to do in order to adjust to the situation that we were in.
CJ
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Thank you, Doctor D and Mr.Jim, for your so very kind answer. 
I was not mistaken, (
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preparations were making (=being made) to receive Mr. Creakle and the boys.
I was not mistaken (about the preparations),
for (=because)
the mop came into the schoolroom before long
... and
("the mop") turned out Mr. Mell and me,
.............................................who (= we) lived where we could
...................................
I was not mistaken (about the preparations),
for (=because)
the mop came into the schoolroom before long
... and
("the mop") turned out Mr. Mell and me,
.............................................who (= we) lived where we could
...................................
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