Whatever powerful interest
"This is a huge advantage for a newspaper editor out to make waves: when various parts of the Establishment objected to our coverage of the Thatcher government or the royal family or whatever powerful interest we had most recently upset, they often tried to work through Rupert to put pressure on me."
(Andrew Neil.)
Is "whatever powerful interest" a direct object of "had most recently upset" in the sentence above?
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tkacka15 Is "whatever powerful interest" a direct object of "had most recently upset" in the sentence above? Indirectly, yes, within the fused relative construction whatever powerful interest we had most recently upset . CJ
- tkacka15 Is "whatever powerful interest" a direct object of "had most recently upset" in the sentence above?
- Indirectly, yes, within the fused relative construction whatever powerful interest we had most recently upset .
- CJ
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tkacka15Is "whatever powerful interest" a direct object of "had most recently upset" in the sentence above?
Indirectly, yes, within the fused relative construction whatever powerful interest we had most recently upset.
CJ
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