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Chapter VII
‘What would you have? It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him. It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’ ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists. ‘They hissed Courbet.
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used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “‘What would you have?”
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading “It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “‘What would you have?”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Courbet.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading ‘What would you have?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
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From this reading It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
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From this reading It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’
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From this reading It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
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From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
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From this reading It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
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From this reading It isn’t my fault--I warned him that the public would not understand him.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading ‘What would you have?
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From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
in the company of; together with
From this reading ‘They hissed Delacroix,’ broke in Sandoz, white with rage, and clenching his fists.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading ‘What would you have?
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From this reading It’s improper; yes, you may say what you like, it’s improper.’
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ‘What would you have?
