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Stenka25 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
What 'does so' refers to?
What 'does so' refers to?
The passage below comes from Unnatural Selection By Mara Hvistendahl.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=MkYLywFF9S4C&pg=PA14&dq=%22in+an+imagined+world+in+which+everyone+who+can+marry+does+so%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22in%20an%20imagined%20world%20in%20which%20everyone%20who%20can%20marry%20does%20so%22&f=false
Demographers call them “surplus men”: the ones left over in an imagined world in which everyone who can marry does so. Men doomed to a life of singledom. Overstock. But the loneliness that accompanies bachelorhood is in fact the least of Asia’s problems.
Here I cannot figure out what the underlined 'does so' refers to.
However hard I may try, nothing comes up.
Regards.
The passage below comes from Unnatural Selection By Mara Hvistendahl.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=MkYLywFF9S4C&pg=PA14&dq=%22in+an+imagined+world+in+which+everyone+who+can+marry+does+so%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22in%20an%20imagined%20world%20in%20which%20everyone%20who%20can%20marry%20does%20so%22&f=false
Demographers call them “surplus men”: the ones left over in an imagined world in which everyone who can marry does so. Men doomed to a life of singledom. Overstock. But the loneliness that accompanies bachelorhood is in fact the least of Asia’s problems.
Here I cannot figure out what the underlined 'does so' refers to.
However hard I may try, nothing comes up.
Regards.
Top answer
It means marries (gets married) .
- It means marries (gets married) .
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