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Jigneshbharati Posted 10 years ago
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"I do not think that what (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding and what the producers guild voluntarily offered was something different. The producers guild had already said that they had wholehearted support for the our army men and wanted to do something for them," Fadnavis said at a programme organised by a news channelCould someone please explain to the use of " what" in the first sentence. I do have a basic idea about " what" but always finds it difficult in my own writing and speech?
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Jignesh
  

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"what (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding" is a noun phrase meaning "the thing that (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding". Similarly, "what the producers guild voluntarily offered" is a noun phrase meaning "the thing that the producers' guild voluntarily offered". The overall sentence pattern, "I do not think that X and Y was something different", is not good English.

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  • "what (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding" is a noun phrase meaning "the thing that (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding".
  • Similarly, "what the producers guild voluntarily offered" is a noun phrase meaning "the thing that the producers' guild voluntarily offered".
  • The overall sentence pattern, "I do not think that X and Y was something different", is not good English.
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"what (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding" is a noun phrase meaning "the thing that (MNS chief) Raj Thackeray was demanding".

Similarly, "what the producers guild voluntarily offered" is a noun phrase meaning "the thing that the producers' guild voluntarily offered".

The overall sentence pattern, "I do not think that X and Y was something different", is not good English.
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Jigneshbharatithe use of " what" in the first sentence
what = the thing that

What he did was wrong.
I did not think that what he did was wrong.
What I like is chocolate.
They were all arguing about what we should do next.
Nobody could hear what the speaker was saying.

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