The syntax of some sentences is peculiar and helps to convey the speech of a child. For example, Alice responds to the Caterpillar: “This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I don't know, sir, for the moment—at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I have been changed several times since then” (Carroll 38). The interruption in his thought process reveals the same confusion a child has, and the capital word “was” is underlined to give importance to the past. However, the last comment, "I think I've been changed" seems to be strange syntax-wise. That sentence is an affirmative sentence in which it has the subject, the verb, and the past participle. The placement of this sentence suggests that Alice firmly believes that she has been changed