That with
To maintain power and promote stability, Mr. Kim and his strategists have worked to obtain the modern equivalent of a hedgehog’s quills — nuclear weapons — and the simple narrative that with this “treasured sword,” and the clever wits of his atomic scientists, Mr. Kim will protect his country from imminent destruction by the “marauding” United States.
Is this sentence grammatical?
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e. the narrative is: With this “treasured sword,” and the clever wits of his atomic scientists, Mr. Kim will protect his country from imminent destruction by the “marauding” United States.
- e.
- the narrative is: With this “treasured sword,” and the clever wits of his atomic scientists, Mr.
- Kim will protect his country from imminent destruction by the “marauding” United States.
- This is all OK grammatically.
- The question of where the noun phrase "the simple narrative that X" fits into the whole sentence seems a bit more doubtful to me.
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The structure of the last part is "the simple narrative that X", where X is the content of the narrative, i.e. the narrative is:
With this “treasured sword,” and the clever wits of his atomic scientists, Mr. Kim will protect his country from imminent destruction by the “marauding” United States.
This is all OK grammatically.
The question of where the noun phrase "the
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