Timeline for What is the grammatical function of "become indispensable summer and winter" here?
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| Nov 26, 2016 at 13:20 | vote | accept | user2249675 | ||
| Nov 26, 2016 at 13:14 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 26, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Thus antiquated/stylised text is over 150 years old, and many native speakers would struggle with it today. The metaphoric outside garment of all (meaning "house") would be more easily understood as outermost garment. The following clause would be easier to understand if we paraphrased it to ...this outermost garment, which has become indispensable all year round. Unfortunately Thoreau couldn't do that in his exact context, because of the next supplementary clause [an annual tax] which would buy a village of Indian wigwams. Two "nested" which's don't work. | |
| Nov 26, 2016 at 12:49 | history | asked | user2249675 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |