If it is a case of ever-fiercer pruning, that risks inspiring the fractiousness that he fears.
I cannot understand the meaning of the above sentence, mainly because I cannot tell which its subject, object and verb are.
"that" is a demonstrative pronoun; it refers to the case of ever-fiercer pruning just mentioned. Does that help?
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"that" is a demonstrative pronoun; it refers to the case of ever-fiercer pruning just mentioned. Does that help?