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Perfect Stranger Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Grammar question no. 36
Hi all,
I have no idea what's the subject of this sentence.
Those of us working in the national English Subject Centre are acutely conscious of a paradox. That is that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods.
Somehow it doesn't read well. I can't figure out what the paradox they're talking about really is.
Thanks
I have no idea what's the subject of this sentence.
Those of us working in the national English Subject Centre are acutely conscious of a paradox. That is that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods.
Somehow it doesn't read well. I can't figure out what the paradox they're talking about really is.
Thanks
Top answer
Perfect Stranger That is that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods. The subject is the demonstrative pronoun 'That', which refers to 'a paradox' immediately preceding. The paradox is as stated in the complement: ' that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods'.
- Perfect Stranger That is that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods.
- The subject is the demonstrative pronoun 'That', which refers to 'a paradox' immediately preceding.
- The paradox is as stated in the complement: ' that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods'.
- Why it is a paradox, however, is not revealed in the excerpt you have given; the contradictory condition must appear earlier or later in the text.
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Perfect StrangerThat is that the family of English subjects in British universities study communication in a very sophisticated way, and harbour a wide variety of pedagogic methods.The subject is the demonstrative pronoun 'That', which refers to 'a paradox' immediately preceding. The paradox is as stated in the complement: 'that the family of Engl
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