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Their language was coarse, their manners barbaric.
Could you analyse the grammatical structure in this sentence?
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t Bình Their language was coarse, their manners barbaric. " This looks like a comma splice, that is, two independent clauses joined by a mere comma, but it is not. Two short, parallel clauses are normally joined that way.
- t Bình Their language was coarse, their manners barbaric.
- " This looks like a comma splice, that is, two independent clauses joined by a mere comma, but it is not.
- Two short, parallel clauses are normally joined that way.
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Nh?t BìnhTheir language was coarse, their manners barbaric.
There is a comma missing, the one that would have stood in for the missing, understood word "were":
"Their language was coarse, their manners, barbaric."
This looks like a comma splice, that is, two independent clauses joined by a mere comma, but it is not. Two short, parallel clauses a
0Nh?t BìnhTheir language was coarse, their manners barbaric.
Could you analyse the grammatical structure in this sentence?
I would have written it thus:
Their language was coarse; their manners, barbaric.
Meaning: Their language was coarse, and their manners were barbaric.
The linking verb be is often deleted lik
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