Grammar of The Bleak House
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'London.' This is the opening paragraph of The Bleak House with the main world. It might mean that the action takes place in London and that this particular city is going to be described. Thus, if we add the main parts of the sentence it might sound as 'the action takes place in London', 'I'm going to speak about London' or something of a kind. However, the original sentence does not show in what tense the action is. The second sentence misses a predicate which might be 'are', 'have been', 'were'. The third sentence shows to be a noun phrase, because both 'implacable' and 'November' describes the noun 'weather'. On the whole the sentence describes the atmosphere of the story.
The first part of the forth sentence lacks both the subject and the predicate, so we could add 'there is'/ 'there was' in order to complete the sentence. However, 'there' is only a formal subject since the actual subject is 'much mud'...