"Agreements of a new type can, if necessary, include measures aimed at facilitating these exchanges. But the question of liberalizing trade should no longer be the main focus. Trade must once again become a means in the service of higher ends. It never should have become anything other than that." (The Guardian.)
Is Trade must once again become a means in the service of higher ends an antecedent of the pronoun "that" in the paragraph above?
Top answer
No. 'That' refers to just 'a means in the service of higher ends'.
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No.
'That' refers to just 'a means in the service of higher ends'.
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