Jody
what does to be cleared all over"here mean? "I declare," he said, "your Ma purely shocked me when she said 'twenty years'. I jest hadn't never set down and reckoned the time. The years has slipped by me, one by one, me not noticin' nor countin'. Ever' spring, I'd figger to git your Ma a well dug. Then I'd need a ox, or the cow'd bog down and perish, or one o' the young uns'd put in and die and I'd have no heart for well-diggin', and medicine to pay for. Bricks so turrible high—When I begun diggin' oncet, and got no water at thirty feet, I knowed I was in for it. But twenty years is too long to ask ary wo-man to do her washin' on a seepage hillside." Jody listened gravely. He said, "We'll git her a well one day." "Twenty years—" Penny repeated. "But always somethin' interferin'. And the war—And then the land to be cleared all over agin." He stood leaning against the trough, looking backward along the years.
23 de ene. de 2015 7:44
Respuestas · 9
If you separate the sentence out like this it makes sense: And then the land [to be cleared] [all over agin.]" The verb phrase is simply 'to be cleared'. The adverb phrase 'all over again' simply means 'again' in the sense of 'from scratch'. If you have to repeat an entire process or task, we say that you do it 'all over again'.
23 de enero de 2015
it's me ,too ~~
23 de enero de 2015
Is everyone on here reading The Yearling? haha. Someone else asked about this book a second ago. As I commented there, this should be put into a notebook entry, so someone like me can try to translate it, as best as we can. It features a lot of slang and grammatical errors, so it is not correct English. But, it is a quotation of how someone, back in the day, actually talked.
23 de enero de 2015
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