JJM, Uriel.
I’m writing to thank you both for your smart interpretation of the excerpt from Anne of Green Gables.
BTW, it is really a fantastic piece of Canadian literature. Yes, the novel may sound wonderfully old-fashioned to some of us. However, I myself find some of its passages not to be so out-of-touch with our modern ways.
Anyway, here is another line, which I hope you don’t mind helping me with:
"So in the end we decided to ask Mrs. Spencer to pick us out a likeable boy of about ten or eleven when she went to get her little girl from the orphanage".
"When she went to get her little girl" -- Is this right? Maybe "When she would go to get her little girl" fits better. What do you think?
Again, thanks in advance.
Paul N.
I’m writing to thank you both for your smart interpretation of the excerpt from Anne of Green Gables.
BTW, it is really a fantastic piece of Canadian literature. Yes, the novel may sound wonderfully old-fashioned to some of us. However, I myself find some of its passages not to be so out-of-touch with our modern ways.
Anyway, here is another line, which I hope you don’t mind helping me with:
"So in the end we decided to ask Mrs. Spencer to pick us out a likeable boy of about ten or eleven when she went to get her little girl from the orphanage".
"When she went to get her little girl" -- Is this right? Maybe "When she would go to get her little girl" fits better. What do you think?
Again, thanks in advance.
Paul N.