I think there might be some missing parts ( verb phrases, such as were present in ex.1, and did in ex.2)of these sentences. How can you explain this kind of writing grammatically? is this a kind of ellipsis?
ex.1) Occasionally only Lieutenant Awn and the day's attendants came to the morning ritual, but usually others were present. The town's medic, a few of the Radchaai who had been granted property here, other Orsian children who could not be persuaded to go to school, or care about being on time for it, and liked the glitter and ring of the disks as they fell.
ex.2) While the Radch wanted everyone to remember what had happened to the Garseddai, they wanted on one to know just how the Garseddai had managed to do what they'd done wat no one had managed to do for a thousand years before or another thousand years after- destroy a Raddchaai ships. Almost no on e alive remembered. I knew, and any still-extant ships that had been there. Anaander Miannaai certainly did.
And Seivarden, who had seen for herself what the Lord of the Radch wanted no one to think was possible- that invisible armor and gun, those bullets that defeated Radchaai armor- and her ship's heat shield- so effortlessly.
(These are some extracts of the novel 'Ancillary Justice' by Ann Leckie)
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