Chapter 2 - this sentence spans pages 19 - 20
"tolerance"
"Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions
are attitudes which make us more useful to others."
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Big Book - Bill's Story - spans pages 19 - 20
In the sentence "tolerance" functions as a noun. 2
A synonym, a word with a similar meaning, for tolerate is to allow. From the last chapter we learned the word prejudice is to pre-judge someone or something. This would be the opposite of tolerate or allow. To respect another enough to not pre-judge their views, makes us more useful to others.
Definitions from Webster's 1930 edition. 3
Chapter 2 - page 20
hopeless
"Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered
from a hopeless condition of mind and body."
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Big Book - Bill's Story - spans page 20
In this sentence "hopeless condition" functions as a noun phrase. This noun phrase breaks down as hopeless is an adjective that modifies the noun, condition. The phrase modifies the prepositional phrase "of mind and body." 2
A synonym, a word with a similar meaning, for tolerate is to allow. From the last chapter we learned the word prejudice is to pre-judge someone or something. This would be the opposite of tolerate or allow. To respect another enough to not pre-judge their views, makes us more useful to others.
Definitions from Webster's 1930 edition. 3
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Footnotes for page 20
1Quotes from the Big Book on listed on this page are from the public domain version, in the United States, of the 2nd edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Accessible at 12step.org
2Sentence diagramming, to determine the word usage within the sentence, was performed by CoreNLP at corenlp.run.
3Definitions used are from the Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1930 Edition.