Question

20 preposition from oliver twist

Answer 1

The nurses were almost entirely untrained.� They were generally middle-aged women, with children and no husbands, who had been forced to earn their livings.� They would make wrong entries on the charts� and lose papers out of the dossiers for the cases.� One nurse smoked cigarettes continually and made the patients ill. One got sick at the operations.� The ward was wildly understaffed and the nurses had to do all the things which in our hospitals are done by orderlies.� Visiting mothers and grandmothers were permitted to sleep in the ward and take care of their own children.� The nurses had no control over the little boys, who kept climbing out of bed, went to sleep at any hour they pleased and engaged in hilarious roughhousing when they were running high temperatures.� What the nurses did best was amuse the children, reading to them, telling them stories and acting out little plays.������� ���������������������������������������(adapted from The Portable Edmund Wilson: 234)��������������������������������������������������������������

The opportunities of the young Dickens to meet eligible young women had evidently been rather limited.� That he was impatient for marriage, nevertheless, is proved by his announcing his serious intentions to three girls in close succession.� The second girl was Maria Beadnell, the original of Dora in David Copperfield, with whom he fell furiously in love.� He father worked in a bank and regarded Charles Dickens, the stenographer, as a young man of shabby background and doubtful prospects; Maria, who seems to have been rather silly, was persuaded to drop her suitor.��������� (adapted from The Portable Edmund Wilson: 385)�����