But we that have but span-long lives must ever bear in mind our They had at heart the young illustrious exile's cause. HENRY ESM., Note. The adverbial adjuncts referred to in this and in the previous § often approximate to predicative adnominal adjuncts. (CH. V1, 2.) 37. The object has front-position when it denotes the person or thing thought of before all the other conceptions mentioned in the sentence. (13.) i. Silver and gold have I none. BAIN, COMP., 300. Me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. ib. Hundreds of pounds had he given Ned Strong. PEND., II, CH. XXIII, 251. ii. To the brave peasants of the West he had not poured forth their blood for attachment. MAC. With many of your strictures I concur. owed it to show that they a leader unworthy of their LIFE OF CH. BRONTË, 400. Of the translation we need only say that it is such as might be expected. POPES, 5416. Note the ironical much (+ noun) in: Much you know of East winds! Much good that does to Canada! BLEAK HOUSE, CH. XXX, 262. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you! Similarly in exclamatory (19), and in interrogative sentences (21). What an immense fortune he has! O Faulkland, how many tears have you cost me! Riv., V, 1. 38. Obs. I. In a sentence containing a quotation, the latter engages almost all of the speaker's attention. Hence it often has frontposition. (II.) "I hope Mr. Hoskins will stay as long as he pleases," said my wife with spirit. SAM. TITM., CH. IX, 109. Quotations are sometimes split up into two parts, one, not always the more important, preceding the head-sentence, the other following it. "Berghen will give us no aid," he wrote, "despite of all the letters we send him." MOTLEY, RISE, II, CH. IV, 200a. "Well," says I, smiling, "she may part with as much Rosolio as she likes for me. I cede all my right." SAM. TITM, CH. IX, 105. II. Also statements that are not meant as quotations are not seldom divided into two by a parenthesis. The latter is then expressive of an afterthought, and is used to tone down the absoluteness of what is contained in the statement. There is a skeleton, they say, in every house. HEREW., CH. I, 9a. 39. The object has also front-position when it serves as a link connecting a sentence with a previous sentence or clause. (4.) His passions and prejudices had led him into a great error. That error he determined to recant. H. E. GR., § 317. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon.... to the Pope who crowned Pepin. MAC., POPES, 542a. With relative pronouns that are objects, front-position is regular. (CH. III, 31.) He was not a little pleased with the compliments which the governess paid him on his proficiency. VAN. FAIR, I, CH. X, 94. WHICH OBJECT TAKES PRECEDENCE OF THE OTHER. 40. When a verb is accompanied by two objects, the object denoting a person is as a rule placed before the object denoting a thing. He handed him a paper. PEND., II. CH. XXXVIII, 412. i. I don't envy Sir Charles Mirable his father-in-law. ib., I, CH. XXX, 322. ii. He condoled with the new emperor Rodolph on his father's death. WESTW. Ho!, CH. II, 116. The King of England offered to declare himself a Roman Catholic, and to join with France against Holland. HIST., I, CH. II, 203. This arrangement is never departed from when the thing-object is a clause, or when the thing-object has a prepos. and the personobject has none. i. You impress upon your waiter that you have ten minutes for dinner. He had been hurt by England's refusal to join with him in sustaining ii. I have charged each patient with three attendances. PUNCH. He informed his brother-in-law of his departure. NIGHT AND MORN., 54. 41. The thing-object, however, is placed first: a) when it is a (pro)noun and less attention is claimed for it than for the person-object. He gave the apple to James (to me), not to John. b) when both the objects are personal pronouns. You tell it me often enough. VAN. FAIR, I, Cн. XXI, 223. Lord Colchicum gave it to me. PEND., I, CH. XXVIII, 299. For my own part I never had any ancestors. But I do not grudge Do not deny me them. NEVER TOO LATE, I, CH. IX, 94. Note. When the person-object is a personal pronoun and the c) when the person-object has another preposition than to, and the thing-object has none. Ask no questions of our people. HYP., CH. II, 10. He inflicted no punishment on the murderers. MAC., CLIVE, 514a. Deviations are rare, unless the thing-object is accompanied by lengthy modifiers, or wants back-position for the sake of emphasis. He never tried to force on me his views. ANN. BES., AUTOB., 178. Note. Sometimes we find the ordinary order reversed for no He gave a Scripture lesson to the boys. BARRY PAIN, CULM. POINT. 1) FRANZ, E. S., XVII. PLACE OF ADVERBIAL ADJUNCTS. 42. Apart from their relative weight or length the placing of adverbial adjuncts depends chiefly on: whether they modify a particular element of the sentence, or the sentence as a whole. b) the nature of the predicate. PLACE OF ADVERBIAL WORD-MODIFIERS. 43. Adverbial adjuncts that modify a particular element of the sentence, are generally placed either immediately before, or imme diately behind the element they belong to. PLACE OF ADVERBIAL ADJUNCTS OF DEGREE. 44. Before the element they belong to we generally find adverbial adjuncts of degree. We must distinguish between such as modify adjectives or adverbs or equivalent word-groups, and such as modify verbs. 45. Adjectives and adverbs or equivalent word-groups have their modifiers of degree standing before them with hardly any exceptions. i. That is nearly as bad. JOHN HAL., CH. XIX, 193. There is no doubt that the Emperor was at times almost popular in the Netherlands. MOTLEY, RISE, I, CH. I, 61b. He is quite the gentleman. N. E. GR., § 1836. He is fully master of the subject. ib. ii. John almost entirely confined his talk to her father. JOHN HAL., CH. XII, 124. It's the historian's duty, therefore, to hang the picture of his administration fully in the light. MOTLEY, RISE, II, CH. IV, 198 1. Note. In the following quotations the adverb of degree modifies Nearly every one has fallen foul of the conclusion of the tale. Scarce a leaf had fallen. PICKW.. CH. XIX, 162. 46. a) In ordinary English an exception is made only with enough, which stands after the word it modifies, either a predicative adjective or an adverb. The letter is long enough. You have slept long enough. Unlike the Dutch genoeg, the English enough is also used to modify an attributive adjective. In this case it is placed either after the noun, or after the adjective. i. He seems a pleasant fellow enough. CON. DOYLE 1). Charley's parents were good people enough. FARJEON, LONDON'S ii. People said that he had driven a homely enough trade in former days. MRS. OLIPH. 2). You know well that the child has strange enough ways and notions. The place after the adjective is, of course, preferred when the noun is accompanied by other adjuncts. It was a bright enough little place of entertainment. STEVENSON 1). b) In colloquial English also other adverbs of degree are occasionally found behind the word they modify. I feel confused rather. JOHN HAL., Cн. X, 136. She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind consciousness of the society around her. MID., CH. IV, 24. I never knew anybody who was happy quite. PEND., II, CH. XXXII, His tone was very frank, and friendly quite. HENRY EDM., II, Different from this is the placing of adverbs of degree after adjectives or adverbs as the result of an afterthought. In those days bread was precious, exceedingly. JOHN HAL., CH. I, 9. My heart is elate because I find you perfect, almost. SHIRLEY, I, The adverb of degree much is also detached from its head-word in such a sentence as: 1) GÜNTH., MAN., § 700; 2) ELLINGER, E. S., XXIV: 3) STOF., INT. AND DOWN-TON., 34. |