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How would you interpret this sentence?
How would you interpret this sentence ‘I got out and told the driver to go on and that if we had not caught up to them at the junction of the road to Cormons to wait there’?
1 How would you interpret the word ‘driver’ in the sentence? I think the author refers to the other drivers, right? If so, I think he should have used ‘drivers’. Does he refer to the driver in the same car with him?
2 How would you interpret the second part of the sentence?
Does it mean the protagonist told the other drivers to keep driving and to wait at the junction of the road if they had not caught up to the other cars?
Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Chapter Eight).the context:
The next afternoon we heard there was to be an attack up the river that night and that we were to take four cars there. Nobody knew anything about it although they all spoke with great positiveness and strategical knowledge. I was riding in the first car and as we passed the entry to the British hospital I told the driver to stop. The other cars pulled up. I got out and told the driver to go on and that if we had not caught up to them at the junction of the road to Cormons to wait there. I hurried up the driveway and inside the reception hall I asked for Miss Barkley.
2016년 4월 1일 오후 1:13
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1. 'Driver' is the driver of the car the person is in. Hemingway doesn't say 'drivers' because he only speaks to his driver. We may assume that this driver communicates with the other drivers or the other drivers overhear, or they are following his car, which is the first car. Doesn't matter really, but clearly the other drivers have some way to get the instruction.
2. He gets out of the first car and all the cars drive off together. All the cars are to wait at the junction if 'we' had not caught up to them. I'm not sure who 'we' is as I would need more context. Must be him and some other people, probably in another car.
2016년 4월 1일
(The preceding sentences are: "I was riding in the first car... I told the driver to stop. The other cars pulled up. I got out and told the driver to go on and that if we had not caught up to them at the junction of the road to Cormons to wait there...."
A car has one "driver." The driver drives the car--steers it, controls it. The driver also rides in the car. The other people in the car are "passengers." They ride in the car; they are riders. The speaker was riding in the first car as a passenger. He tells the driver of his car to stop. He gets out. He tells the driver of his car to go on. Therefore, "driver" is singular.
It's not clear how the other drivers and the other cars know what they are supposed to do. He was riding in the first car. Likely there was an understanding that his car would lead and the other cars would follow. In any case, he doesn't speak to any other drivers.
2016년 4월 2일
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