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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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"Asked if he or his officials had asked for the warning to be included in the statement, the chancellor said: "We've got countries around the table like the United States of America, like the IMF, like the Chinese who frankly don't do what anyone tells them to do and they."" (BBC website.)

Does the pronoun "they", at the end of the chancellor's statement, stand for the clause "they do/oblige" or "they don't do/oblige"? Can "they" in such a position be named as a verbless clause?
  

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Anonymous Does the pronoun "they", at the end of the chancellor's statement, stand for the clause "they do/oblige" or "they don't do/oblige"? We don't know because you haven't included the whole sentence. Anonymous Can "they" in such a position be named as a verbless clause?

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  • Anonymous Does the pronoun "they", at the end of the chancellor's statement, stand for the clause "they do/oblige" or "they don't do/oblige"?
  • We don't know because you haven't included the whole sentence.
  • Anonymous Can "they" in such a position be named as a verbless clause?
  • No.
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AnonymousDoes the pronoun "they", at the end of the chancellor's statement, stand for the clause "they do/oblige" or "they don't do/oblige"?
We don't know because you haven't included the whole sentence.
AnonymousCan "they" in such a position be named as a verbless clause?
No.
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That sentence is truncated. The BBC website made an error in quoting it like that. It should have stopped after "to do."
By the way the IMF (the International Monetary Fund) is an organization, not a country, and "the Chinese" is a reference to a nationality.
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