语法结构

Observe the following sentences and study the related grammar.

• New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. (concessive clause)

• There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized man. (infinitive)

• As this is true of the techniques of mankind, so it is true of mankind’s spiritual resources. (as… so structure)