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I have been reading CARL SAGAN's CONTACT. In it, I found this sentence difficult to understand grammatically.
There are no commas, conjunctives, relative pronouns and, I think, two different idea (saying) continues without them. Below is the sentence I'm talking about.
[The argument was picked up by those in the United States made uneasy by the late reduction of tensions between the two nuclear superpowers.]
Did it mean that the argument was picked up someone in US and it made uneasy... ?
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The argument was picked up by those in the United States (who were) made uneasy by the late reduction of tensions between the two nuclear superpowers.
- The argument was picked up by those in the United States (who were) made uneasy by the late reduction of tensions between the two nuclear superpowers.
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The argument was picked up by those in the United States (who were) made uneasy by the late reduction of tensions between the two nuclear superpowers.
0leobroun[The argument was picked up by those in the United States made uneasy by the late reduction of tensions between the two nuclear superpowers.]
Paraphrase:
There was an argument. Some people were debating, and reached a point where they could not continue. They stopped. Another group of people continued the argument ("picked up"). These peopl
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