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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
A fronted adjective phrase
There were more aggressions. Historian Victoria Tin-bor Hui writes of 160 wars "involving great powers" between 656 and 357 BCE. Some of the powers had been gobbled up by others, and of the 148 or so powers that had existed, the tendency of big powers to absorb smaller powers reduced that number to something like seventeen, at the beginning of the Warring States Period, considered as having begun around the mid-400s BCE.
[Warring States Period Begins http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/china01b.htm]
I'd like to know if "of the 148 or so powers that had existed" modifies "that number."
Thank you in advance for your help.
[Warring States Period Begins http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/china01b.htm]
I'd like to know if "of the 148 or so powers that had existed" modifies "that number."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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In my opinion this sentence is slightly imperfect, and there is no strictly logical way in which "of the 148 or so powers that had existed" connects with the rest of the sentence. It seems to me that the author may have had in mind a construction like "of the 148 or so powers .... e.
- In my opinion this sentence is slightly imperfect, and there is no strictly logical way in which "of the 148 or so powers that had existed" connects with the rest of the sentence.
- It seems to me that the author may have had in mind a construction like "of the 148 or so powers ....
- e.
- meaning "something like 17 of the 148 or so powers", but did not quite achieve this.
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In my opinion this sentence is slightly imperfect, and there is no strictly logical way in which "of the 148 or so powers that had existed" connects with the rest of the sentence. It seems to me that the author may have had in mind a construction like "of the 148 or so powers .... something like 17 remained ..." (or something similar), i.e. meaning "something like 17 of the 148 or so powers", but
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