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Jay from earth Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

what does "lengths" mean? and is "we were" a appositive clause of "lengths"?

Nearly five million people lost their homes in the Great Recession, and even more of us sobered up about the lengths we were willing to go -- or be tricked into going, in many predatory cases --to hold that deed
  

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Lengths here encapsulates a great extent ( of effort, sacrifices, extremes, etc)

  • Lengths here encapsulates a great extent ( of effort, sacrifices, extremes, etc)
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Lengths here encapsulates a great extent ( of effort, sacrifices, extremes, etc)
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Jay from earththe lengths we were willing to go
~ the amount of sacrifice that we were willing to make
~ the amount of work that we were willing to do
~ the amount of effort that we were willing to expend
~ the amount of money that we were willing to spend

"we were" has nothing to do with appositives. It's part of a relative clause modify
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