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Fri 16 May, 2014 02:05 am
Hi Guys! I need your help.
This is a sentence from. "The moon and sixpence"- There was about all of them an air of well-satisfied prosperity. Can the part 'ABOUT ALL OF THEM ' be considered as a subject of this sentence.
There / was / air
"About all of them" describes air.
(No one speaks like this anymore. A modern version might be: They all gave off an attitude of being rich. )
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:(No one speaks like this anymore.
Plenty of people speak like that. And it's "any more", two words.
I encountered some apparently homeless men coming out of an alley the other day. There was about all of them an air of cheap wine and unwashed garments--and i literally mean "an air."
So where's the subject of the sentence?
An air there was.
@McTag,
air / was
Disregard my post above. I screwed it up royally.
@Sole Miller,
No, but air is. The rest of it modifies what sort of 'air' that is abut them.
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