Was that another bunch
What Max had not bargained for, when the bunch of people moved off at the peep-peep-peeping of the little green man, was that another bunch would be coming towards him from the other side of the street.
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What is the grammatical form and function of "that another bunch...."? Would the sentence be still grammatical without "that" (, was another bunch...)? Does "that" in "was that another..." refer to anything?
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"? Take "it" to mean "what Max had not bargained for", and remove the parenthetical "when" clause, and you get "It was that another bunch …". The "that" clause is a noun clause acting as the predicate nominative of the copulative "was".
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- Take "it" to mean "what Max had not bargained for", and remove the parenthetical "when" clause, and you get "It was that another bunch …".
- The "that" clause is a noun clause acting as the predicate nominative of the copulative "was".
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- Yes, barely, but it would not be clear.
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JigneshbharatiWhat is the grammatical form and function of "that another bunch...."?
Take "it" to mean "what Max had not bargained for", and remove the parenthetical "when" clause, and you get "It was that another bunch …". The "that" clause is a noun clause acting as the predicate nominative of the copulative "was". (in old-fashioned grade-school gr
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