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"The byelection has been seen as a test bed for the much-mooted idea of a so-called progressive alliance to defeat the Conservatives in future general elections. Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party, Caroline Lucas, it has won some limited support among a few Labour and Lib Dem MPs." (The Guardian.)
Is the sentence The byelection has been seen as a test bed for the much-mooted idea of a so-called progressive alliance to defeat the Conservatives in future general elections a subject of the non-finite clause Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party in the above?
Is the same sentence an antecedent of the pronoun "it" in the paragraph above?
Is the sentence The byelection has been seen as a test bed for the much-mooted idea of a so-called progressive alliance to defeat the Conservatives in future general elections a subject of the non-finite clause Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party in the above?
Is the same sentence an antecedent of the pronoun "it" in the paragraph above?
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Anonymous Is the sentence The byelection has been seen as a test bed for the much-mooted idea of a so-called progressive alliance to defeat the Conservatives in future general elections a subject of the non-finite clause Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party No. Such grammar does not obtain across separate sentences. Anonymous Is the same sentence an antecedent of the pronoun "it" No, and for the same reason.
- Anonymous Is the sentence The byelection has been seen as a test bed for the much-mooted idea of a so-called progressive alliance to defeat the Conservatives in future general elections a subject of the non-finite clause Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party No.
- Such grammar does not obtain across separate sentences.
- Anonymous Is the same sentence an antecedent of the pronoun "it" No, and for the same reason.
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AnonymousIs the sentence The byelection has been seen as a test bed for the much-mooted idea of a so-called progressive alliance to defeat the Conservatives in future general elections a subject of the non-finite clause Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green partyNo. Such grammar does not obtain across separate sentences.
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The antecedent of "it" is "idea".
"Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party" does not have an explicit grammatical subject, but the thing expounded is "it", i.e. the idea.
"Expounded most clearly by the joint leader of the Green party" does not have an explicit grammatical subject, but the thing expounded is "it", i.e. the idea.
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