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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The omission of a pronoun and general verb

Singapore's precocious development is unparalleled in so young a nation. In 1960, when U.S. Economic Historian Walt W. Rostow published "The Stages of Economic Growth", his classic yardstick of national economies, Singapore was still a British Crown Colony, with a freshly minted home-rule government under Lee Kuan Yew, then just into his second year as Prime Minister.

I'd like to know whether 'he went' is omitted after 'then just'.
If so, I'd like to know whether a general verb can be omitted too.

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon then just into his second year as Prime Minister. "

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park sang joon then just into his second year as Prime Minister.
I take it as an adverb phrase functioning as an adverbial in the sentence where "then" is a head of that phrase; the head is post-modified by another adverb phrase "just into his second year as Prime Minister."
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... Lee Kuan Yew, then just into his second year as Prime Minister.

I'd see this as a form of non-defining relative clause, equivalent in meaning to ... Lee Kuan Yew, who was then just into his second year as Prime Minister.
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Thank you, fivejedjon, for your help.

I'd see this as a form of non-defining relative clause, equivalent in meaning to ... Lee Kuan Yew, who was then just into his second year as Prime Minister.
Then I could think the phrase "(who was) then just into his second year as Prim
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park sang joonThen I could think the phrase "(who was) then just into his second year as Prime Minister." is a participle phrase.
No. There is no participle there.
park sang joonHere what meaning does 'be into' have?
Let's leave that until you are happy with everything else.
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Thank you, fivejedjon, for your continuing support.

No. There is no participle there.
I know; That interpretation is a Korean way.

Let's leave that until you are happy with everything else.
I don' know whether such a day could come or not.
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park sang joonThat interpretation is a Korean way.
In the context of the group of English words we are talking about, it is an incorrect way.
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