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Stenka25 Posted 16 years ago
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The meaning of a sentence
The below paragraph is from a book named "Sparks of Genius."
Can you give me the meaning of the 2nd sentence? I also want to know the structure of the sentence and the role two "that"s.
Thanks in advance.
Astrophysicist Margaret Geller says, "I have to have a visual model or a geometric model or else I can't do it. Problems that don't lend themselves to that I don't do." This sort of imaging proclivity may explain the styles and strengths of other inventive people as well.
Can you give me the meaning of the 2nd sentence? I also want to know the structure of the sentence and the role two "that"s.
Thanks in advance.
Astrophysicist Margaret Geller says, "I have to have a visual model or a geometric model or else I can't do it. Problems that don't lend themselves to that I don't do." This sort of imaging proclivity may explain the styles and strengths of other inventive people as well.
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" Can you give me the meaning of the 2nd sentence? I don't do problems unless they can be expressed via a visual or geometric model. I also want to know the structure of the sentence It's just an emphatic reversing of the normal word order, which would be I don't do problems that don't lend themselves to that.
- " Can you give me the meaning of the 2nd sentence?
- I don't do problems unless they can be expressed via a visual or geometric model.
- I also want to know the structure of the sentence It's just an emphatic reversing of the normal word order, which would be I don't do problems that don't lend themselves to that.
- and the role two "that"s.
- First that = which Second that refers to the idea of being expressed via a visual or geometric model .
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Hi,
The below paragraph is from a book named "Sparks of Genius."
Can you give me the meaning of the 2nd sentence?
I don't do problems unless they can be expressed via a visual or geometric model.
I also want to know the structure of the sentence
It's just an emphatic reversing of the normal word order, which would be
I don't do problems
The below paragraph is from a book named "Sparks of Genius."
Can you give me the meaning of the 2nd sentence?
I don't do problems unless they can be expressed via a visual or geometric model.
I also want to know the structure of the sentence
It's just an emphatic reversing of the normal word order, which would be
I don't do problems
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