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Shcho23 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

What does "it" refer to?

Politics cannot be suppressed, whichever policy process is employed and however sensitive and respectful of differences it might be.


Does "it" refer to 'politics' or 'policy process'?


And is 'of' omitted after 'sensitive'?


Thank you so much.

  

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shcho23 Does "it" refer to 'politics' or 'policy process'? politics shcho23 And is 'of' omitted after 'sensitive'? Yes.

— CalifJim

  • shcho23 Does "it" refer to 'politics' or 'policy process'?
  • politics shcho23 And is 'of' omitted after 'sensitive'?
  • Yes.
  • It's not needed because it comes up again after 'respectful'.
  • CJ
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shcho23Does "it" refer to 'politics' or 'policy process'?

politics

shcho23And is 'of' omitted after 'sensitive'?

Yes. It's not needed because it comes up again after 'respectful'.

CJ

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hmmm, I tend to think that 'it' refers to 'policy process'.


But either way, I don't really understand the writer's logic. It seems to me that he thinks being 'sensitive and respectful of differences' tends to suppress politics. I don't know why he thinks that.

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Now that I take another look, I suppose it could be interpreted either way, but that coordinating conjunction and surely throws a wrench into the works.

You are ready, and I am ready supposedly means the same thing as I am ready, and you are ready because and connects equals. So the original sentence and the same sentence with clauses reversed s

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