Wildblue Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Unable to find the verb
Hello. Could you please help me with the following sentences? I cannot find the verb in the second one.
"Literature, too, must signify something other than its content and its individual form, something which defines its limits and imposes it as literature. Whence a set of signs unrelated to the ideas, the language or the style, and setting out to give definition, within the body of every possible mode of expression, to the utter separateness of a ritual language."
What is the meaning of "ritual language"? Thank you.
"Literature, too, must signify something other than its content and its individual form, something which defines its limits and imposes it as literature. Whence a set of signs unrelated to the ideas, the language or the style, and setting out to give definition, within the body of every possible mode of expression, to the utter separateness of a ritual language."
What is the meaning of "ritual language"? Thank you.
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There is an implied verb in the 2nd sentence, "come": "Whence (come) a set of signs unrelated to the ideas...a ritual language." You see this kind of construction sometimes in English, for example:
"I served 4 years in the military, whence (comes) my disciplined nature."
"I served 4 years in the military, whence (comes) my disciplined nature."
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