A question of modification
The U.S. is stressing the importance of social distancing during services ahead of Easter this weekend.
Which one does modify ‘this weekend’, ‘Easter’ or ‘services’ or others to make sense?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual.
Top answer
I don't see that anything modifies 'this weekend'. You can see this more clearly if you rearrange the words like this. S.
- I don't see that anything modifies 'this weekend'.
- You can see this more clearly if you rearrange the words like this.
- S.
- is stressing the importance of social distancing during services ahead of Easter.
- _________________________________________________________________________ In terms of real meaning, it's too late to talk about doing anything 'ahead of Easter', because the Easter weekend has already started.
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I don't see that anything modifies 'this weekend'. You can see this more clearly if you rearrange the words like this.
This weekend, the U.S. is stressing the importance of social distancing during services ahead of Easter.
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0Nothing modifies "this weekend", if that is what you are asking. The way I understand it, "this weekend" is telling us that Easter falls this weekend (i.e. the coming weekend, as of the time that this was written).
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