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“Let's have a great power contest, and let's get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else,” she added. “Just saying, that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in."
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Is "how absurd the situation we find ourselves in" (a complement of the verb "shows") an indirect question in the utterance above?
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I think it is not.
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Let's have a great power contest, and let's get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else,” she added. “Just saying, that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in is . I've inserted a missing verb, "is".
- Let's have a great power contest, and let's get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else,” she added.
- “Just saying, that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in is .
- I've inserted a missing verb, "is".
- The underlined exclamative clause functions as complement of the verb “shows”.
- The adverb "how" is a degree modifier of "absurd", and the relative clause "that we find ourselves in" modifies "situation".
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Let's have a great power contest, and let's get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else,” she added. “Just saying, that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in is.
I've inserted a missing verb, "is".
The underlined exclamative clause functions as complement of the verb
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