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Decoding Shakespeare’s Language. Some bottlenecks and examples. Omitted Words. familiar patterns I take up what’s cast away. (250). Word order. adverbial prepositional phrases To plainness honour’s bound , / When majesty falls to folly . (145-46 )
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Decoding Shakespeare’s Language Some bottlenecks and examples
Omitted Words familiar patterns I take up what’s cast away. (250)
Word order adverbial prepositional phrases To plainness honour’s bound, / When majesty falls to folly. (145-46) Know that we have divided / In three our kingdom (33-34) direct object …that we our largest bounty may extend... (48) Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon, (249) adverb Only we shall retain / The name, and all th’ addition to a king; (132-33) adjective-adverb He’ll shape his old course in a country new. (213)
Clipping and the apostrophe familiar patterns I take up what’s cast away. (250) …and here are to be answer’d(44)
Question Formation Inversion of the subject and verb Is not this your son, my lord? (7)
Shifting Parts of Speech Adjectives nominalized The barbarous Scythian… shall to my bosom be as well neighbor’d…as though my sometime daughter. (250)