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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
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We thought it was too huge a story not to...

“We thought it was too huge a story not to maximise as a rich project that the children could learn from.” (The Guardian.)

Is too huge a story not to maximise as a rich project that the children could learn from a noun phrase functioning as a complement within the complement of the verb "thought", i.e., within "it was too huge a story..." ?

Is that the children could learn from a relative and content clause functioning as a complement of the noun phrase "a rich project"?

  

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Correct. The complement of 'thought' is (that) it was too huge ... could learn from.

— CalifJim

  • Correct.
  • The complement of 'thought' is (that) it was too huge ...
  • could learn from.
  • Within that complement you have the noun phrase too huge a story ...
  • could learn from.
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Correct.

The complement of 'thought' is

(that) it was too huge ... could learn from.

Within that complement you have the noun phrase

too huge a story ... could learn from.

And there is also a relative clause that modifies (not complements) a rich project, i.e., that the children could learn from.

CJ

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