Note 17 — THE VERBALIST. (continued 2)
Reading edition
"Samuel Richardson writes: 'Jenny, who attends me here, has more than once hinted to me that Miss Jervis loves to sit up late, either reading or being read to by Anne, who, though she reads well, is not fond of the task.'—'Sir Charles Grandison,' vol. iii, p. 46 (ed. 1754).
"The transition is very slight by which we pass from 'sits being read to' to 'is being read to.'"