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Alibey1917 Posted 6 years ago
Vocabulary

The whole of it discipline

"A CPUSA section organizer describes the power that accrues when people join together as 'the thrill of seeing one become through the other, the idea through the structure, the structure through the action. And the whole of it discipline, each by its own properties, own function, and together, by the grand design that only a disciplined existence could form.'" (jodi Dean, Comrade)

I couldn't figure the emphasized sentence out, can you help me? Is the colored "discipline" a verb or noun here? If it's a verb, shouldn't have it been "disciplines"? And the following comma should not have existed, is that so?

  

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I don't understand the sentence. It looks to me like the word "discipline" should not be in the sentence. " But it's not a part of the grammar of the sentence.

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I don't understand the sentence. It looks to me like the word "discipline" should not be in the sentence. Maybe it was in parentheses to define "it." But it's not a part of the grammar of the sentence.

Maybe it should be "its discipline."

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