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Eunjinny Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

A quote from a book

"Nobody ever came out into the country and talked to real farmers and things because this is the next thing this country has done: it divided us into classes, and it you hadn't arrived at a certain level, you wasn't treated no better by blacks than you was by the whites. And it was these kids who broke alot of that down, They treated us like we were specail and we loved 'em...We didn't feel uneasy about our language might not be right or something ,We just felt we could talke to 'em. We trused 'em."

(What Fannie Lou Hammer said in the book "The African-American Odyssey)

What is the things, and the next thing means? And does 'it' means working in farms?

Looking forward to anwers, thanks...
  

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"and things" indicates, in a vague way, that other (unspecified) things happened that were similar to "nobody ever coming into the country and talking to real farmers". "the next thing" is the next thing she's about to mention -- the fact that they were divided into classes. The way I read it, "it" refers to "the country".

— Mr Wordy

  • "and things" indicates, in a vague way, that other (unspecified) things happened that were similar to "nobody ever coming into the country and talking to real farmers".
  • "the next thing" is the next thing she's about to mention -- the fact that they were divided into classes.
  • The way I read it, "it" refers to "the country".
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"and things" indicates, in a vague way, that other (unspecified) things happened that were similar to "nobody ever coming into the country and talking to real farmers".

"the next thing" is the next thing she's about to mention -- the fact that they were divided into classes.

The way I read it, "it" refers to "the country".
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