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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

An implied object

This novel is set in a Chinese village before World War One.
Here "she" refers to the newly-wedded wife of the protagonist Wang Lung's

And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a was of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes.
<The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck>
I'd like to know "their ragged clothes" is implied after "mended."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

" No. the rents'.

  • " No.
  • the rents'.
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park sang joonI'd like to know "their ragged clothes" is implied after "mended."
No. 'Mended...the rents'.
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for your So very helpful answer as usual. Emotion: yes

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