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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Regarding To Relative Clause

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.


I'm not sure which parsing is right.

1. which we have [ecstasy] only to be still to experience.

(ecstasy is the object of 'have' and 'experience').

2. which we have only to be still to experience [ecstasy].

(ecstasy is the object of 'experience').

  

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anonymous 2. which we have only to be still to experience [ecstasy]. (ecstasy is the object of 'experience').

  • anonymous 2.
  • which we have only to be still to experience [ecstasy].
  • (ecstasy is the object of 'experience').
  • It's this parsing.
  • , must.
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anonymous

2. which we have only to be still to experience [ecstasy].

(ecstasy is the object of 'experience').

It's this parsing.

"have" is part of the semi-modal "have to", i.e., must. We must be still in order to experience this ecstasy.

CJ

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