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You were right. “As many” means the same number. Twice as many means two times as many. From there we pretty much the number followed by ” as many”, Like “15 times as many” is a=15b.

Examples of ”twas’ in a sentence ’twas

1. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
2. It seemed, and therefore for our losses sad, I meant to send this heart instead of mine, But oh, no man could hold it, for ’twas thine.

‘Twas is a contraction of it was, and the rule with contractions is that we use the apostrophe to stand in for missing letters. For more holiday grammar fun, see my 10-question quiz: ‘Tis (or t’is?) the season. I bet you’ll get the title question correct, at the very least.

‘Twas is archaic rather than obsolete (as in ‘Twas the night before Christmas) but is still current in the phrase ‘Twas ever thus, and ’tis is still in use in the back-and-forth ‘Tisn’t!

‘Brillig’ means four o’ clock in the afternoon–the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.” “That’ll do very well,” said Alice: “and ‘slithy’?” “Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy,’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active. ‘ You see it’s like a portmanteau–there are two meanings packed up into one word.”

And the mome raths outgrabe.” Outgrabe means to bellow, whistle and sneeze in the middle. Rather like pigs making a fuss. The Muppet Show. The Muppet Show (1980) – As part of the Muppet Show, the Mome Raths are green pigs with tufts of fur in the episode of Alice In Wonderland staring Brooke Shields as Alice.

verb. Used as a nonsense word: (most frequently) to emit a strange noise.

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In addition, although Alice exhibits symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, and the Mad Hatter those of both Bipolar disorder and PTSD, Alice in Wonderland is a story so infused with mental illness that both of these characters actually had syndromes named after them: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (disorientating condition …

The Duchess demonstrates how people can change radically in different environments. When she’s in her pepper-filled house with her angry cook and squealing baby, she is rude and violent.

White Rabbit The first creature that Alice sees in Wonderland. He leads Alice down the hole to Wonderland; he mistakes Alice for his servant, Mary Ann, and he orders her to fetch his gloves and fan.

The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at his time of life. The King’s argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren’t to talk nonsense.

At first, the baby is completely normal and innocent, but Alice notices the baby’s gradual transformation into the evil animal. It does not just suddenly turn into a pig. This desciption implies that the innocence of children and the changes they undergo as they grow into adults occur over time.

A Duchess nurses a baby, a grinning cat sits on the hearth, and a Cook stands at the stove, dumping pepper into a cauldron of soup. Upon finishing, she flings the baby at Alice and hurries out of the room to prepare for croquet with the Queen. Alice takes the baby outside, only to discover that it is a pig.

The Pig Baby appeared in The Duchess’s house as her baby for some minutes Alice was also its nanny. It is a baby that constantly howls and sneezes because of pepper. Once Alice takes the baby inside, it turns into a pig.

In turn, “Alice said with some severity: ‘it’s very rude. ‘” The insults continued, as did the interruptions, and they eventually caused Alice to leave. When the Hatter interrupted her, “This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear; so she got up in great disgust and walked off.”