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Lucas21c Posted 8 years ago
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Could you tell me what or whom the 'help' in the following sentence helps? Thank you in advance.


I think the man who wrote it has actually been to Turkey , which helps.

  

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I think the man who wrote it has actually been to Turkey , which helps . "Helps" refers to some arbitrary entity that is helped by the knowledge that the man who wrote it has been to Turkey. The meaning can be glossed as 'That the man has actually been to Turkey is helpful to x'.

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  • I think the man who wrote it has actually been to Turkey , which helps .
  • "Helps" refers to some arbitrary entity that is helped by the knowledge that the man who wrote it has been to Turkey.
  • The meaning can be glossed as 'That the man has actually been to Turkey is helpful to x'.
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I think the man who wrote it has actually been to Turkey , which helps.

"Helps" refers to some arbitrary entity that is helped by the knowledge that the man who wrote it has been to Turkey.

The meaning can be glossed as 'That the man has actually been to Turkey is helpful to x'.

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lucas21c

Could you tell me what or whom the 'help' in the following sentence helps? Thank you in advance.


I think the man who wrote it has actually been to Turkey, which helps.

I think we can infer that any reader of the man's writing (presumably on the topic of Turkey) is the receiver of the help. (And the fact that the write

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