IS "Something" Apposition?
I also really enjoyed seeing Sonezaki with an actual friend outside the literature club, something she only got by becoming more vulnerable and learning to be honest with herself.
Would you tell me If "something" is apposition? From what I can tell, "something" means "the actual friend" outside the literature club. Although I'm not sure of if it's possible for "something" to mean "somebody". Anyway, my parsing is: she (Sonezaki) only got something (the actual friend) by becoming more vulnerable and learning to be honest with herself.
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I don't think this is a very good sentence. I find it rather awkward for "something" to refer to the friend. I suppose another possibility may be that the author has lost track of the sentence and is imagining some other referent that does not actually exist, such as "the ability to form friendships".
- I don't think this is a very good sentence.
- I find it rather awkward for "something" to refer to the friend.
- I suppose another possibility may be that the author has lost track of the sentence and is imagining some other referent that does not actually exist, such as "the ability to form friendships".
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I don't think this is a very good sentence. I find it rather awkward for "something" to refer to the friend. I suppose another possibility may be that the author has lost track of the sentence and is imagining some other referent that does not actually exist, such as "the ability to form friendships".
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