Grammar Patterns

The Little Match Girl 作品中の完了形・仮定法の文を、種類別に分類して並べています。

• 完了形 過去完了

  had been

  Trigger: had + been

  One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had bought

  Trigger: had + bought

  Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had given

  Trigger: had + given

  Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had drawn

  Trigger: had + drawn

  Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had not sold

  Trigger: had + sold

  Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had already stretched

  Trigger: had + stretched

  The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had seen

  Trigger: had + seen

  Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had seen

  Trigger: had + seen

  Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had loved

  Trigger: had + loved

  “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had told

  Trigger: had + told

  “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had been

  Trigger: had + been

  Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had seen

  Trigger: had + seen

  No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had entered

  Trigger: had + entered

  No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.

• 仮定法 as if 構文

  as though she were

  Trigger: as if/though + were

  It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.