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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A little grammar is most becoming, it becomes a man...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And in case no-one mentioned this to you<br>on those hot summer afternoons when<br>you could hear the sound of bat on ball, or<br>ball on racquet, or foot on football, or<br>just people enjoying themselves out there<br>beyond the half-open classroom window –</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a little bit of grammar can open your eyes, <br>open your mind, make you curious…<br>take for example the word ‘become’..</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">many centuries ago the ancient Brits<br>got it from some ‘Germanic’ tribe, <br>and it meant, to come to a place, <br>be somewhere, go somewhere…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and later it acquired the sense of something<br>developing into something else, and<br>being recognised as that –<br>‘she’s become a real beauty, hasn’t she? ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">then in the Jane Austeny 18th century years, <br>they would say ‘what a very becoming<br>young lady..’ though not to imply she<br>wasn’t quite a lady yet, oh no…<br>and the verb had ‘become’<br>an adjective sometimes (well, OK, a verbal adjective..) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or they’d say ‘How well those clothes become her! ’<br>meaning, not, she hung them up at night, and<br>in the morning found herself hanging there inside them…<br>but meaning decorous, well turned out…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">then in the 19th century I guess, <br>philosophers of the heavy sort (we might assume<br>they’d reverted to Germanic tones…) <br>talked about ‘Being and Becoming’, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">implying that two things were going on, <br>a bit like one thing standing still inside<br>something else which was changing; <br>or perhaps outside; a bit like God<br>(whom those philosophers didn’t necessarily<br>believe in – but it serves…) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">God saying ‘I Am - BUT – I am going<br>to become – Everything! ! … so, <br>Let There Be Light! ’ and<br>you know what – there was light…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=459952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and there alas, we must leave<br>our friend ‘becoming’; to become<br>what it will, or rather, how we use it; but<br>you must agree, life becomes more interesting, <br>even you could say, more becoming, <br>with a touch of grammar even<br>on a hot day when you’re becoming<br>a little drowsy, please Miss, can I go<br>and get a glass of water…?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>