I find it interesting in that
"I find it interesting in that country music never embraced the Eagles, yet they had as profound an impact as anybody that's ever been in country music." (rollingstones.com)
Is "interesting" an adjective or is "interesting in" a phrasal verb and "that" a subordinator in the above? Or, is "in that" a prepositional phrase in which "that" is a pronoun followed by ellipted (omitted) subordinator "that" like this: "I find it interesting in that [that] country music never embraced the Eagles..."?
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"in that" is a phrase that functions as a conjunction. ", indicating that the latter is reason for the former. ".
- "in that" is a phrase that functions as a conjunction.
- ", indicating that the latter is reason for the former.
- ".
- I'm not sure whether "in that" was written intentionally or whether it is indeed a typo.
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"in that" is a phrase that functions as a conjunction. In this case it can be interpreted as joining "I find it interesting" and "country music never embraced ...", indicating that the latter is reason for the former. However, for me the sentence does not work tremendously well in this interpretation, and it tends to initially seem like a typo for "I find it interesting that ...". I'm not sure
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