Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #4
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is now famous writer.
Traddles is his best frined and a lawyer, and Sophy is his able wife.
Thrddles tells the narrator about his wife.
Chapter 61 I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
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"~When it's fine, and we go out for a walk in the evening, the streets abound in enjoyment for us. We look into the glittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophy which of the diamond-eyed serpents, coiled up on white satin rising grounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows me which of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled and engine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever- escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if she could afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!~"
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I think "which of" to be possessive relative pronoun.
If so, I was wondering what is the antecedent of "which of."
2. I'd like to know if the non-restrictive relative pronoun "which" is omitted.
3. And I'd like to know if "should" means "would."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is now famous writer.
Traddles is his best frined and a lawyer, and Sophy is his able wife.
Thrddles tells the narrator about his wife.
Chapter 61 I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
.................................
"~When it's fine, and we go out for a walk in the evening, the streets abound in enjoyment for us. We look into the glittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophy which of the diamond-eyed serpents, coiled up on white satin rising grounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows me which of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled and engine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever- escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if she could afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!~"
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I think "which of" to be possessive relative pronoun.
If so, I was wondering what is the antecedent of "which of."
2. I'd like to know if the non-restrictive relative pronoun "which" is omitted.
3. And I'd like to know if "should" means "would."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. I think "which of" to be possessive relative pronoun. I show her which (piece of jewelry) (is the one that) I would give her.
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park sang joon1. I think "which of" to be possessive relative pronoun.I show her which (piece of jewelry) (is the one that) I would give her. (Which one would I give her?)
It's an interrogative pronoun in an indirect question. There is therefore no antecedent.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know if the non-restrictive relative
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