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Adnan Haider Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Kindly help me understand this english sentence.

But science teaches the invaluable habit of distrusting the patently obvious, and so retired anthropology professor Pat Shipman takes very little for granted in her endlessly fascinating new book How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
  

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Hello, Adnan—and welcome to English Forums. I see no real idiom in that sentence. Which words do you not understand?

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  • Hello, Adnan—and welcome to English Forums.
  • I see no real idiom in that sentence.
  • Which words do you not understand?
  • patently = extremely take for granted = accept or assume true without proof
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Hello, Adnan—and welcome to English Forums.

I see no real idiom in that sentence. Which words do you not understand?

patently = extremely
take for granted = accept or assume true without proof
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Many thanks Emotion: smile Got it now!
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