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Takehisa Tanaka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Could you help me understand this sentence?
Could you help me understand this sentence?
This is from an old English highschool text book:
"It is a characteristic of both Congress and our state legislatures that complete independence of judgment on the part of the members has become next to impossible."
I can not parse that sentence grammatically.
Could you please rephrase it?
This is from an old English highschool text book:
"It is a characteristic of both Congress and our state legislatures that complete independence of judgment on the part of the members has become next to impossible."
I can not parse that sentence grammatically.
Could you please rephrase it?
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Takehisa Tanaka " It is a characteristic of both Congress and our state legislatures that complete independence of judgment on the part of the members has become next to impossible. " Let's rearrange it and tweak it a little. It has become almost impossible to expect complete independence of judgement from Congress and state legislators.
- Takehisa Tanaka " It is a characteristic of both Congress and our state legislatures that complete independence of judgment on the part of the members has become next to impossible.
- " Let's rearrange it and tweak it a little.
- It has become almost impossible to expect complete independence of judgement from Congress and state legislators.
- This is a characteristic of (typical of) both Congress and the state legislatures.
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Takehisa Tanaka"It is a characteristic of both Congress and our state legislatures that complete independence of judgment on the part of the members has become next to impossible."Let's rearrange it and tweak it a little
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