It runs
"A half-lie dominates modern culture that is worse than a straight lie because it contains enough truth to persuade readers who otherwise wouldn’t be fooled. The people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere, it runs. The globalised elites, once as comfortable in Manhattan as Davos, have been humbled by the left-behind working-class."
(The Guardian.)
What does the clause it runs refer to in the paragraph above?
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it = the half-lie, namely, that the people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere it runs = the half-lie goes like this: (the people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere) 'it runs' is postposed. Its normal place in the sentence would be at the beginning. CJ
- it = the half-lie, namely, that the people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere it runs = the half-lie goes like this: (the people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere) 'it runs' is postposed.
- Its normal place in the sentence would be at the beginning.
- CJ
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it = the half-lie, namely, that the people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere
it runs = the half-lie goes like this: (the people from somewhere have risen up against the people from nowhere)
'it runs' is postposed. Its normal place in the sentence would be at the beginning.
CJ
0I read this as: "The half-lie runs: the globalized elites, once as comfortable in Manhattan as Davos, have been humbled by the left-behind working-class, and have therefore risen up against them."
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