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Abstract Among the pairs of opposites established on the basis of syntagmatic contrast in 2.3 we find, among others, the following cases: (1) He’d been madly in love with Veronica but it wouldn’t have done. Veronica would have swallowed him body and soul. (TH,25) (2) I wish she would explain it to me, he thought wrily, gazing into another mirror, I’m damned if I can make head or tail ofit. (CP,170) (3) Do you think the old saying is true—about you’re born to be hanged or born to be drowned? (HP,87)(4) It was indeed, he thought, a perfect marriage of Nature and Civilization, this view, where one might take in at a glance the consummation of man’s technological skill and the finest splendours of the natural world. (CP, 56) (5) Unable to decide on the relative accuracy of the oral and rectal methods of taking her temperature, Barbara had decided to employ both. (TBMIFD,10) (6) Caroline dissented. She said that if the man was a hair-dresser, he would have wavy hair, not straight. All hair-dressers did. (MRA., 19) (7) She drew out from her handbag the letter she had received that morning from Lady Tamplin. Katherine was no fool. She understood the nuancesof that letter as well as anybody and the reason of Lady Tamplin’s show of affection towards a long-forgotten cousin was not lost upon her. It was for profit and not for pleasure that Lady Tamplin was so anxious for the company of her dear cousin.
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