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Pructus Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

You’re not on a long journey

You’re not on a long journey, and you’re not on a long journey that mankind, whatever that group is that has been moving down through the centuries. You’re not that!

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Hello...

The underlined sentence seems to be incorrect one.
Or, it's hard to find out the structure of it.
Is it plainly wrong sentence or it is a structure that I don't know?
It seems to be of the structure, "You’re not on a long journey that mankind has been moving down through the centuries", but in that case, it becomes simply wrong.

What am I missing here?
  

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I'm not sure what the writer is trying to say, but from a strictly grammatical viewpoint, that mankind begins a relative clause which never ends. There is the relative that, and ma nkind, which is the subject of the relative clause, but that's it. The rest of the relative clause is missing.

— Cool Breeze

  • I'm not sure what the writer is trying to say, but from a strictly grammatical viewpoint, that mankind begins a relative clause which never ends.
  • There is the relative that, and ma nkind, which is the subject of the relative clause, but that's it.
  • The rest of the relative clause is missing.
  • Grammatically, this would be correct: You're not on a long journey that mankind may or may not finish some day.
  • CB
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I'm not sure what the writer is trying to say, but from a strictly grammatical viewpoint, that mankind begins a relative clause which never ends. There is the relative that, and mankind, which is the subject of the relative clause, but that's it. The rest of the relative clause is missing.

Grammatically, this would be correct: You're not on a long journey th
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I see...

Thanks a lot Cool Breeze!!
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