What does the "semi-colon(;)" mean in that context?
"Heritage is concerned with the ways in which very selective material artefacts, mythologies, memories and traditions become resources for the present. The contents, interpretations and representations of the resource are selected according to the demands of the present; an imagined past provides resources for a heritage that is to be passed onto an imagined future. It follows too that the meanings and functions of memory and tradition are defined in the present. Further, heritage is more concerned with meanings than material artefacts."
Q1. What does the "semi-colon(;)" mean in that context? "and" , "but", or "because" or something else? It's important to me.
Q2. What does the "that"-clause modify exactly? "resources" or "a heritage"?
Q3. what does the "it" indicate in "It follows that"? "the previous sentence" or "that-clause"? And what can "It follows too that" be paraphrased into?
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thanks3 Q1. What does the "semi-colon(;)" mean in that context? "and" , "but", or "because" or something else?
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- What does the "semi-colon(;)" mean in that context?
- "and" , "but", or "because" or something else?
- It's important to me.
- I can't say it means anything.
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thanks3Q1. What does the "semi-colon(;)" mean in that context? "and" , "but", or "because" or something else? It's important to me.
I can't say it means anything. The writer chose to concatenate the two sentences with it. I don't understand what the writer wrote, so I can't say why he did it. Normally, a semicolon in that position indicates that the second
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