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Seagull Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Difficult grammatical construction
You don't see talk of Manchuria in children's English textbooks, yet every middle school English book has a section on Hiroshima. Why? To make the assistant language teacher comfortable? To remind the students and ALTs who is in charge? To make sure that the ALT maintains a quiet, submissive posture in class, because who's going to stand in front of a room of Japanese children and tell them the A-bomb was their granpa's fault?
In the sentences above, I don't understand the part "because who's going to stand in front of a room of Japanese children." Please tell me the meaning and the grammatical construction of this part.
In the sentences above, I don't understand the part "because who's going to stand in front of a room of Japanese children." Please tell me the meaning and the grammatical construction of this part.
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" is a rhetorical question. The implied answer is "no one", adding another reason for the alleged bias in the textbooks.
- " is a rhetorical question.
- The implied answer is "no one", adding another reason for the alleged bias in the textbooks.
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"who's [= who is] going to stand in front of a room of Japanese children and tell them the A-bomb was their granpa's fault?" is a rhetorical question. The implied answer is "no one", adding another reason for the alleged bias in the textbooks.
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Thank you very much indeed, GPY. I've learned a lot from your posting.
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