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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
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Some hitherto unimagined leap forward

"Every now and again, at some huge auditorium, a senior staff member at one of the big firms based in northern California – ordinarily a man – will take the stage dressed in box-fresh casualwear, and inform the gathered multitudes of some hitherto unimagined leap forward, supposedly destined to transform millions of lives."

(The Guardian.)

Do adverbs hitherto and forward modify the noun phrase some hitherto unimagined leap forward in the sentence above?

  

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tkacka15 Do adverbs hitherto and forward modify the noun phrase some hitherto unimagined leap forward in the sentence above? This question does not totally make sense, since you have included the modifying words in the thing to be modified. "hitherto" modifies "unimagined".

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  • tkacka15 Do adverbs hitherto and forward modify the noun phrase some hitherto unimagined leap forward in the sentence above?
  • This question does not totally make sense, since you have included the modifying words in the thing to be modified.
  • "hitherto" modifies "unimagined".
  • "forward" modifies "leap".
  • "hitherto unimagined" modifies "leap forward".
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tkacka15Do adverbs hitherto and forward modify the noun phrase some hitherto unimagined leap forward in the sentence above?

This question does not totally make sense, since you have included the modifying words in the thing to be modified.

"hitherto" modifies "unimagined".

"forward" modifies "leap".

"hitherto unimagine

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