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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Failed to understand "not that"- does it mean "not a labor of love/not a love work"?
Context:
I wish I could say that writing this book was a labor of love; it was not that for a
single moment of the two years it took to complete. First of all, it was emotionally
painful to review all of the videotapes from the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)
and to read over and over the typescripts prepared from them. Time had dimmed
my memory of the extent of creative evil in which many of the guards engaged,
the extent of the suffering of many of the prisoners, and the extent of my pas-
sivity in allowing the abuses to continue for as long as I did!an evil of inaction.
I wish I could say that writing this book was a labor of love; it was not that for a
single moment of the two years it took to complete. First of all, it was emotionally
painful to review all of the videotapes from the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)
and to read over and over the typescripts prepared from them. Time had dimmed
my memory of the extent of creative evil in which many of the guards engaged,
the extent of the suffering of many of the prisoners, and the extent of my pas-
sivity in allowing the abuses to continue for as long as I did!an evil of inaction.
Top answer
Right, it was not a labor of love. (As you probably know, "labor of love" is a set phrase. )
- Right, it was not a labor of love.
- (As you probably know, "labor of love" is a set phrase.
- )
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Right, it was not a labor of love. (As you probably know, "labor of love" is a set phrase. "love work" is not a very natural phrase.)
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I wish I could say that writing this book was a labor of love; it was not that for a
single moment of the two years it took to complete.
The pronoun's antecedent is "a labor of love," so you can rewrite it as:
I wish I could say that writing this book was a labor of love; it was not a labor of love for a
s
single moment of the two years it took to complete.
The pronoun's antecedent is "a labor of love," so you can rewrite it as:
I wish I could say that writing this book was a labor of love; it was not a labor of love for a
s
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