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The goals of the practices act as structuring webs to which unfolding talk

0The goals of the practices act as structuring webs to which unfolding talk orients.02br
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00Could anyone explain the grammatical structure of this sentence?0-
  

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02br 02br 00There are practices. The 01u 00goals02u 00 of these practices is the subject, and these goals 01u 00act02u 00 (the verb) as structing webs. ) And apparently, there is unfolding talk (whatever that is), that orients toward these webs?

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  • 02br 02br 00There are practices.
  • The 01u 00goals02u 00 of these practices is the subject, and these goals 01u 00act02u 00 (the verb) as structing webs.
  • ) And apparently, there is unfolding talk (whatever that is), that orients toward these webs?
  • This really makes no sense.
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0This sentence is one step away from nonsense to me.02br
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00There are practices. The 01u00goals02u00 of these practices is the subject, and these goals 01u00act02u00 (the verb) as structing webs. (I have 01i00no idea02i00 what a structuring web is, or how the goals can act as structuring webs.) And appar
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10 This really makes no sense. 12br
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10I wonder whether some sadistic English teacher made up this unintelligible sentence solely as practice for identifying grammatical structures... or dealing with business jargon gone amuck. 05000 051010id311id1
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0 Very poor phrasing. 0-
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0I'm not sure whether it's funny or sad,02br
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00but the person who wrote that is a linguist and her book is full of that kind of arrrgggh!0-
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0It's sad. It's a sad indictment of how "academics" write. That sentence is junk.0-
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