Cousin Phillis

Lesson #278: ‘All Impatience To Be Off …’: 7 Negative Prefixes in Gaskell’s ‘Cousin Phillis’ (1864)

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Have you heard of negative prefixes in English before? 🧐 👩‍🏫 While the grammatical term is a bit of a mouthful, they are nothing to worry about. In fact, they are useful little syllables that we place at the beginning of a word (a noun, adjective, adverb, or verb) to indicate that its meaning has […]

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Lesson #173: The Passive Voice in Gaskell’s ‘Cousin Phillis’

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📗 Early as it was, every one had breakfasted, and my basin of bread and milk was put on the oven-top to await my coming down. Every one was gone about their work. The first to come into the house-place was Phillis with a basket of eggs. Faithful to my resolution, I asked – ‘What are those?’ She looked at me

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