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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
If a pair clicks, phone numbers are exchanged before the man moves on to the next table or else departs for the evening, safe in the knowledge that he may well have met the woman of his dreams.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know if the underlined clause implies "the man left there taking his partner with him without clicking."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Grammar
The connotation of a clause.
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At these events, men and women, preferably in equal numbers, gather at a lounge or club. The women take a seat; then, in a variation in musical chairs, the men move form table to table, spending seven minutes with each female.If a pair clicks, phone numbers are exchanged before the man moves on to the next table or else departs for the evening, safe in the knowledge that he may well have met the woman of his dreams.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know if the underlined clause implies "the man left there taking his partner with him without clicking."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
I take it to mean this. If they click modifies the whole sentence. The man then either moves to the next table or goes home happily by himself.
- I take it to mean this.
- If they click modifies the whole sentence.
- The man then either moves to the next table or goes home happily by himself.
- We are not explicitly told what happens if they don't click, but I'm sure he moves to the next table.
- in short, after clicking some men stay to try to click again and some men don't stay.
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I take it to mean this.
If they click modifies the whole sentence. The man then either moves to the next table or goes home happily by himself.
We are not explicitly told what happens if they don't click, but I'm sure he moves to the next table.
If they click modifies the whole sentence. The man then either moves to the next table or goes home happily by himself.
We are not explicitly told what happens if they don't click, but I'm sure he moves to the next table.
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Thank you, Clive, for your very helpful answer. 
Then, I'd like to know why he leave with (being) safe in the knowledge that he
Then, I'd like to know why he leave with (being) safe in the knowledge that he
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park sang joonthen, in a variation in musical chairsthen, in a variation of or on musical chairs
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Then, I'd like to know why he leave with (being) safe in the knowledge that he may well have met the woman of his dreams.
I suppose the idea is this.
He thinks it is likely that she is the woman he has always dreamed about, so he sees no point in staying to meet other women.
I suppose the idea is this.
He thinks it is likely that she is the woman he has always dreamed about, so he sees no point in staying to meet other women.
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