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Hasibul Alam Posted 6 years ago
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What is the connection with the last clause"numbers in ..."
The quantity of books, newspapers, magazines and manuscripts and papers which were read to get me to where I am today numbers in the many thousands
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This overall structure of this sentence is: The quantity of X numbers in the many thousands. X is a long noun phrase. "numbers" is a verb.
- This overall structure of this sentence is: The quantity of X numbers in the many thousands.
- X is a long noun phrase.
- "numbers" is a verb.
- The subject of "numbers" is "the quantity of X".
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This overall structure of this sentence is:
The quantity of X numbers in the many thousands.
X is a long noun phrase. "numbers" is a verb. The subject of "numbers" is "the quantity of X". The sentence is basically saying that there are many thousands of X (i.e. many thousands of books, newspapers etc. were read).
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