Taka Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Where
where
Function:conjunction
4 a: at, in, or to the place at, in, or to which <stay where you are> <send him away where he'll forget> b: in a case, situation, or respect in which<outstanding where endurance is called for>
Now, which 'where' is it? Is it about a place or about a case/situation?
In the last decades of the eighteenth century, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, a number of words, which are now of capital importance, came for the first time into common English use, or, where they had already been generally used in the language, acquired new and important meanings.
Function:conjunction
4 a: at, in, or to the place at, in, or to which <stay where you are> <send him away where he'll forget> b: in a case, situation, or respect in which<outstanding where endurance is called for>
Now, which 'where' is it? Is it about a place or about a case/situation?
In the last decades of the eighteenth century, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, a number of words, which are now of capital importance, came for the first time into common English use, or, where they had already been generally used in the language, acquired new and important meanings.
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I see it as two separate situations:
One situation would be "words that came for the first time into common English use".
The second situation would be "words already in common use which have now aquired new and important meanings".
One situation would be "words that came for the first time into common English use".
The second situation would be "words already in common use which have now aquired new and important meanings".
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Yes, I took it that way too.
But now I'm wondering if it might be possible to take it as 'in some place, those words had already been used, but around the end of the eighteenth century, it acquired new and important meaning as we use now'.
You don't think it's possible, Amy?
But now I'm wondering if it might be possible to take it as 'in some place, those words had already been used, but around the end of the eighteenth century, it acquired new and important meaning as we use now'.
You don't think it's possible, Amy?
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