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Hans51 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Remark, claiming...
‘On the same day, the deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament made stern remarks, claiming that Iran will not surrender to U.S. threats that easily.’
How can I understand ‘, claiming that...’ in the sentence?
1) Is it an additional information of ‘stern remark’?
2) Is it a short version of ‘and it claimed that...’?
Here ‘it’ is ‘the deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament’.
Or is there another option?
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual.
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’? Here ‘it’ is ‘the deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament’. That one.
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- Here ‘it’ is ‘the deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament’.
- That one.
- You can (but don't need to) say "and he/she claimed".
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Hans512) Is it a short version of ‘anditclaimed that...’?Here ‘it’ is ‘the deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament’.
That one. You can (but don't need to) say "and he/she claimed".
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