Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1620 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Latinate Word Order
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The idea
Milton arranges English on Latin principles, putting adjectives after nouns and holding verbs to the end of clauses. The effect is elevation, and the cost is difficulty. A candidate who can parse it is reading the hardest syntax the exam is likely to print.
In practice
English arranged on Latin lines.
Where people slip
The hardest syntax on the paper.
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