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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
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But what those who seek...
"But what those who seek to mobilise that prospect for leverage in the negotiations fail to appreciate is how the whole threatening idiom – defiant swigging from the bottle marked “no deal” – completes the picture of a nation losing its balance, sliding out of control."
(The Guardian.)
Is "what" a fused pronoun and the object of the verb phrase "fail to appreciate" in the sentence above?
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Yes (or "fused relative pronoun" in full). The thing that those people fail to appreciate is how ... etc.
- Yes (or "fused relative pronoun" in full).
- The thing that those people fail to appreciate is how ...
- etc.
- etc.
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Yes (or "fused relative pronoun" in full). The thing that those people fail to appreciate is how ... etc. etc.
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