They must go could get talks restarted
"And the fact that the EU has finally acknowledged that they must go could get talks restarted."
(economist.com [from fraze.it])
I'm not sure whether my interpretation of the subordinate clause (a conditional one?) that they must go could get talks restarted is right.
I read it as: talks could get restarted on condition that they must go.
Is my reading correct?
Top answer
"And the fact [that the EU has finally acknowledged that they must go] could get talks restarted. This is the way I read it. The pronouns make it difficult to interpret.
- "And the fact [that the EU has finally acknowledged that they must go] could get talks restarted.
- This is the way I read it.
- The pronouns make it difficult to interpret.
- The EU's acknowledgement that (the UK must leave the union) could get talks restarted.
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"And the fact [that the EU has finally acknowledged that they must go] could get talks restarted.
This is the way I read it. The pronouns make it difficult to interpret.
The EU's acknowledgement that (the UK must leave the union) could get talks restarted.
0I think you may have misparsed the sentence. The overall structure is "X could get talks restarted", where X is the long noun phrase "the fact that the EU has finally acknowledged that they must go".
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