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Rpsh Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

quantify a drama

To find order in the changes, we seek refuge, of a kind, in statistics: in my years in China, the number of airline passengers doubled; cell phone sales tripled; the length of the Beijing subway quadrupled. But I was less impressed by those numbers than by a drama that I could not quantify: two generations ago, visitors to China marveled most at the sameness of it all.

In the sentence, I don't think "a drama" can be quantified, so I extrapolate that the clause, "I could not quantify", is used to describe the word "numbers". Do you think so?
  

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rpsh I don't think "a drama" can be quantified Take 'drama' as 'dramatic change'. The author was unable to quote any statistics regarding the sort of change he described. CJ

  • rpsh I don't think "a drama" can be quantified Take 'drama' as 'dramatic change'.
  • The author was unable to quote any statistics regarding the sort of change he described.
  • CJ
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rpshI don't think "a drama" can be quantified
Take 'drama' as 'dramatic change'. The author was unable to quote any statistics regarding the sort of change he described.

CJ
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Got it, thank you!

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