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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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Breaking with centuries of imperial tradition

Despite efforts of appeasement by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate to establish an atmosphere of peaceful solidarity, many feudal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimyo remained bitterly resentful of the shogunate's open-door policy to foreign trade. Belligerent opposition to European and American influence erupted into open conflict when the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_K%C5%8Dmei, breaking with centuries of imperial tradition, began to take an active role in matters of state and issued on March 11 and April 11, 1863 his "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_to_expel_barbarians"

I'd like to know if "centuries of" modifies "imperial tradition."

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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No. "Of imperial tradition" is a prepositional phrase of kind, modifying "centuries."
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Thank you, deadrat, for your yet another answer. Emotion: smile
Then I think "breaking with imperial tradition for centuries" make sense much
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"Breaking with imperial tradition for centuries" means that the breaking went on for hundreds of years. But it's not the breaking that is so extended. It's the imperial tradition.
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park sang jooncenturies of imperial tradition
This is sometimes called a partitive construction.

Compare: a part of the story, a slice of pie, a piece of cake, dozens of eggs, months of worry, years of work

Syntactically, the of-phrase modifies the preceding noun (or perhaps the correct word i
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