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Taka Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

That

The artistic expression of emotions vaires from age to age and from one country and another. We are brought up to accept the conventions current in the society into which we are born. This sort of art, we learn in childhood, is meant to excite laughter, that to provoke tears.
Is 'that' in bold one of those 'this and that' constructions? Is it an ellipsis of 'that sort of art is meant to provoke tears'?
  

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It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but to my ear, this construction means that the laughter in turn provokes tears - that is, a chain of events. The brake pedal is meant to actuate the master cylinder, that to operate the wheel cylinders.

— Avangi

  • It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but to my ear, this construction means that the laughter in turn provokes tears - that is, a chain of events.
  • The brake pedal is meant to actuate the master cylinder, that to operate the wheel cylinders.
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It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but to my ear, this construction means that the laughter in turn provokes tears - that is, a chain of events.

The brake pedal is meant to actuate the master cylinder, that to operate the wheel cylinders.
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It is followed by this:
Such conventions vary with great rapidity, even in the same country.
It doesn't seem to be anything about a chain of events.
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Okay, you're right. We learn to use tools as children. This is for tightening, that is for prying.
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