City Boy
“Yet at the hot noontide of a sweet-smelling day in June, only a week later, Lennie and Herbie were sitting together on the granite steps of a stoop on the shady side of the street opposite P.S. 50, eating ice cream turn and turn about out of one paper cup. Lennie was on a lower step, looking up humbly at Herbie. It was he who had paid for the ice cream, and each time he passed the cup up to Herbie it was like a peace offering.
Every phenomenon, however remarkable, has an explanation. This was t...he first day of promotion tests. Lennie was trying, in one hour, to suck the honey of six months of wisdom accumulated by Herbie on the subject of English grammar.
“Tell me again,” he said, “what the difference is between a phrase an' a clause.”
“Well, a clause is like a sentence inside a sentence, see,” said Herbie patiently, “an' a phrase only has a preposition an' a noun.”
“What the blazes is a preposition again?”
“Well, like ‘on,’ ‘in, ’ ‘to,’ ‘of’—you know.”MoreLess
Every phenomenon, however remarkable, has an explanation. This was t...he first day of promotion tests. Lennie was trying, in one hour, to suck the honey of six months of wisdom accumulated by Herbie on the subject of English grammar.
“Tell me again,” he said, “what the difference is between a phrase an' a clause.”
“Well, a clause is like a sentence inside a sentence, see,” said Herbie patiently, “an' a phrase only has a preposition an' a noun.”
“What the blazes is a preposition again?”
“Well, like ‘on,’ ‘in, ’ ‘to,’ ‘of’—you know.”MoreLess
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