Grammar Patterns

The Truth About Pyecraft 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 advised

  Trigger: had + advised

  "I expect," he said, "you take no more exercise than I do, and probably you eat no less." (Like all excessively obese people he fancied he ate nothing.) "Yet"—and he smiled an oblique smile—"we differ." And then he began to talk about his fatness and his fatness; all he did for his fatness and all he was going to do for his fatness; what people had advised him to do for his fatness and what he had heard of people doing for fatness similar to his.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had heard

  Trigger: had + heard

  "I expect," he said, "you take no more exercise than I do, and probably you eat no less." (Like all excessively obese people he fancied he ate nothing.) "Yet"—and he smiled an oblique smile—"we differ." And then he began to talk about his fatness and his fatness; all he did for his fatness and all he was going to do for his fatness; what people had advised him to do for his fatness and what he had heard of people doing for fatness similar to his.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had got

  Trigger: had + got

  I had got to that state of feeling for him that disposed me to say, "Well, take the risk!" The little affair of Pattison to which I have alluded was a different matter altogether.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had just discovered

  Trigger: had + discovered

  "But—but—" he said He had just discovered that it wasn't English.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had desisted

  Trigger: had + desisted

  I could have fancied he had desisted, and I saw him one day talking to three new members about his fatness as though he was in search of other recipes.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had done

  Trigger: had + done

  Pyecraft inhabited the upper half of a house in Bloomsbury, and I went there so soon as I had done my coffee and Trappistine.

• 完了形 過去完了

  hadn't been

  Trigger: hadn't + been

  They believed he was ill; he hadn't been out for two days.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had glued

  Trigger: had + glued

  There he was, right up close to the cornice in the corner by the door, as though some one had glued him to the ceiling.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had brought

  Trigger: had + brought

  I pointed out to him that this was a trouble he had brought upon himself, and that it had almost an air of poetical justice.

• 完了形 過去完了

  had eaten

  Trigger: had + eaten

  He had eaten too much.

• 完了形 完了不定詞

  to have been

  Trigger: to have + been

  Ought it to have been?" "That," I said, "goes without saying in all my poor dear great-grandmother's recipes.

• 完了形 現在完了

  has requited

  Trigger: has + requited

  The man I helped, the man I shielded, and who has requited me by making my club unendurable, absolutely unendurable, with his liquid appeal, with the perpetual "don't tell" of his looks.

• 完了形 現在完了

  has just gonged

  Trigger: has + gonged

  He has just gonged; no doubt to order another buttered teacake!

• 完了形 現在完了

  have alluded

  Trigger: have + alluded

  I had got to that state of feeling for him that disposed me to say, "Well, take the risk!" The little affair of Pattison to which I have alluded was a different matter altogether.

• 完了形 現在完了

  has kept

  Trigger: has + kept

  Some of the things are quite unreadable to me—though my family, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani from generation to generation—and none are absolutely plain sailing.

• 完了形 現在完了

  have done

  Trigger: have + done

  There he sits watching until I have done this writing.

• 仮定法 as if 構文

  as though I was

  Trigger: as if/though + was

  Since you will be abject, since you will behave as though I was not a man of honour, here, right under your embedded eyes, I write the thing down—the plain truth about Pyecraft.

• 仮定法 as if 構文

  as though he penetrated to the

  Trigger: as if/though + to-inf (the)

  He was a bore, but not so fearful a bore as to be limited to me and from the first there was something in his manner—almost as though he knew, almost as though he penetrated to the fact that I might—that there was a remote, exceptional chance in me that no one else presented.

• 仮定法 as if 構文

  as though he was

  Trigger: as if/though + was

  I could have fancied he had desisted, and I saw him one day talking to three new members about his fatness as though he was in search of other recipes.

• 仮定法 as if 構文

  as though some one had

  Trigger: as if/though + had

  There he was, right up close to the cornice in the corner by the door, as though some one had glued him to the ceiling.

• 仮定法 助動詞 + 完了形

  should have told

  Trigger: should + have + told

  If I wanted to tell on him I should have told long ago.

• 仮定法 助動詞 + 完了形

  could have fancied

  Trigger: could + have + fancied

  I could have fancied he had desisted, and I saw him one day talking to three new members about his fatness as though he was in search of other recipes.

• 仮定法 助動詞 + 完了形

  shouldn't have tried

  Trigger: shouldn't + have + tried

  "He shouldn't have tried it, anyhow," I said to myself.

• 仮定法 助動詞 + 完了形

  might have floated

  Trigger: might + have + floated

  "How the deuce," said I, "are you holding on up there?" And then abruptly I realised that he was not holding on at all, that he was floating up there—just as a gas-filled bladder might have floated in the same position.

• 仮定法 助動詞 + 完了形

  should have expected

  Trigger: should + have + expected

  He behaved just as I should have expected a great, fat, self-indulgent man to behave under trying circumstances—that is to say, very badly.

• 仮定法 仮定法過去

  if I tried his patience too much he would fall

  Trigger: if + past ... would + base

  I was always a little afraid if I tried his patience too much he would fall on me suddenly and smother me.

• 仮定法 wish subjunctive

  wish I could

  Trigger: wish + could

  "If anything gives way and you tumble down," I said, "you'll break your neck, Pyecraft." "I wish I could," he wheezed.