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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "the government encouraged" mean "the government encouraged the violation"?
Does "the government encouraged" mean "the government encouraged the violation"?
Context:
The 2011 agreement to build the church had been signed by the congregation and by the local bureau of religious affairs, representing the government. That the religious affairs bureau now says it did not get the land rezoned strikes many as an internal government problem. So, too, does the argument that the church was bigger than planned, a violation that officials and members of the congregation agree the government encouraged.
Context:
The 2011 agreement to build the church had been signed by the congregation and by the local bureau of religious affairs, representing the government. That the religious affairs bureau now says it did not get the land rezoned strikes many as an internal government problem. So, too, does the argument that the church was bigger than planned, a violation that officials and members of the congregation agree the government encouraged.
Top answer
No, one office of the government just encouraged a bigger church, not realizing it would affect the zoning.
- No, one office of the government just encouraged a bigger church, not realizing it would affect the zoning.
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No, one office of the government just encouraged a bigger church, not realizing it would affect the zoning.
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'Bigger than planned' (which is also the 'antecedent' of 'violation'). Your problem is that you still rely too much on syntax and not enough on semantics.
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That is: the government encouraged the "bigger than planned" or "the violation"?
Hasn't this exactly proved that our analysis has come to the same result?
Hasn't this exactly proved that our analysis has come to the same result?
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NL888So, too, does the argument that the church was bigger than planned, a violation that officials and members of the congregation agree the government encouraged.The grammatical antecedent of the underlined 'that' is 'violation'. The subject of the relative clause introduced by its direct object 'that' is the government.
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