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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

One sentence: that of

I read the below sentence and couldn't understand the underlined words. Can you explain please?

He represents five port company executives, that of including ports of Tasman.

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A typo, perhaps, or poor writing/editing. I suspect the writer started with 'that of' and then changed his mind to 'including' but then got confused or forgot what he was doing. This might have been his goal: 'executives, including those of the ports ot Tasman'.

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  • A typo, perhaps, or poor writing/editing.
  • I suspect the writer started with 'that of' and then changed his mind to 'including' but then got confused or forgot what he was doing.
  • This might have been his goal: 'executives, including those of the ports ot Tasman'.
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A typo, perhaps, or poor writing/editing. I suspect the writer started with 'that of' and then changed his mind to 'including' but then got confused or forgot what he was doing. This might have been his goal: 'executives, including those of the ports ot Tasman'.
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Thank you.

Why not 'that' but 'those'?
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