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Taka Posted 19 years ago
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0 01i00When I was a child,there was a good deal of adult conversation to the effect that children had to learn to be unselfish. It was a word that I came to dislike intensely 01font00because 02font00it always turned out to involve something I did not want to do and for the doing of which there were no visible rewards.02br
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0Thanks Jim. To me 1 means 2.02br
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00Wouldn't it be possible to take the "that" clause as restrictive in #2?02br
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MrPedanticI must admit, I missed the difference too.

Wouldn't it be possible to take the "that" clause as restrictive in #2?

MrP

Allow me to pick up this old thread.

P, did you mean that it's in the scope of the 'that' clause as:

It was a word that I came to dislike intensely because it always turned out to i
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I think I meant that "a word that I came to dislike intensely" is a single thought; thus #2 implies:

2a. Because the word involved unpleasant things, it was a word that I disliked.

All the best,

MrP
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MrPedanticI think I meant that "a word that I came to dislike intensely" is a single thought; thus #2 implies:

2a. Because the word involved unpleasant things, it was a word that I disliked.

All the best,

MrP

So unlike Jim, you think the sentence in question is #2, not #1?
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MrPedanticI think I meant that "a word that I came to dislike intensely" is a single thought; thus #2 implies:

2a. Because the word involved unpleasant things, it was a word that I disliked.

All the best,

MrP


That's how I saw it.

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