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Hans51 Posted 11 years ago
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"It was really hard not to try everything that they had selling on the street in the vendors."
"It was really hard not to try everything that they had selling on the street in the vendors."
I have seen this sentence and I was wondering if 'that they had' and 'selling on..' modify everything behind respectively or
'that they had selling on...' modifies everything and it was like 'they had everything selling on...' And then how can I interpret this sentence?
"They had everything selling on the street in the vendors."
How was the verb have(had) used in the sentence and what does that mean here?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance!
I have seen this sentence and I was wondering if 'that they had' and 'selling on..' modify everything behind respectively or
'that they had selling on...' modifies everything and it was like 'they had everything selling on...' And then how can I interpret this sentence?
"They had everything selling on the street in the vendors."
How was the verb have(had) used in the sentence and what does that mean here?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance!
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"everything that they had selling" is not great English in my opinion, but it can be interpreted as meaning "everything that they had for sale". "in the vendors" doesn't make sense to me. A vendor is a person (or company).
- "everything that they had selling" is not great English in my opinion, but it can be interpreted as meaning "everything that they had for sale".
- "in the vendors" doesn't make sense to me.
- A vendor is a person (or company).
- If the sentence was not written by a fluent speaker then the "had selling" part could be a mistake too, rather than a deliberate intention to express the meaning I described.
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"everything that they had selling" is not great English in my opinion, but it can be interpreted as meaning "everything that they had for sale". "in the vendors" doesn't make sense to me. A vendor is a person (or company). If the sentence was not written by a fluent speaker then the "had selling" part could be a mistake too, rather than a deliberate intention to express the meaning I described.
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