第4回　主語と動詞（2）：読み手の思考の流れを円滑化

はじめに　ｍ3の読者の皆様、本講座をご訪問いただき、ありがとうございます。　次の文章は、チャールズ・ダーウィンの「種の起源（Origin of Species）」の一節です。たった1文の中に84単語が含まれており、まったく解読困難です。　“With respect to what I have called the indirect action of changed conditions, namely, through the reproductive system of being affected, we may infer that variability is thus induced, partly from the fact of this system being extremely sensitive to any change in the conditions, and partly from the similarity, as...