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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
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1i00The excellence and popularity of the modern short story is indisputable. Although some may consider 01b00it02b00 lamentable, fiction has displaced poetry in the modern taste, and the length of the short story seems to make 01b00it02b00 particularly appropriate to our fastmoving world.02i02br
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00I think both 01b00it'02b00s refer to the modern short story.02br
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02br 02br 00The second "it" does refer to "short story". 0-

— Feebs11

  • 02br 02br 00The second "it" does refer to "short story".
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0 The first "it" refers to the lamentable replacement of poetry by fiction - "it" here is a demonstrative, used at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known.02br
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00The second "it" does refer to "short story". 0-
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00No, no-- the modern short story is not lamentable,LiJ! The first 01b01i00it02i02b00 refers to "01i00fiction has displaced poetry in the modern taste". 02i00The second 01b01i00it02i02b00 refers to the modern short story, though.0-
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0Thanks, Feebs and Mister. Simultaneous answers helpe me understand.02br
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