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rice07
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 Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: that |
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A senior official, acknowledging that current diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia are mostly bilateral in nature, stressed the new task force would focus on participating in ASEAN activities on regional level, promoting dialogue and cooperation and even exploring the possibility of reaching a free-trade agreement.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/foreign%20affairs/2008/09/15/174697/MOFA-to.htm
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My question is , I think,whether there's a conjunction, that coming immediately after stressed, omitted? And the subject of the sentence is a senior official, the verb is stressed? Thanks for your help! |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: that |
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| rice07 wrote: |
A senior official, acknowledging that current diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia are mostly bilateral in nature, stressed the new task force would focus on participating in ASEAN activities on regional level, promoting dialogue and cooperation and even exploring the possibility of reaching a free-trade agreement.
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My question is , I think,whether there's a conjunction, that coming immediately after stressed, omitted? And the subject of the sentence is a senior official, the verb is stressed? Thanks for your help! |
Correct on all points. Your core sentence is:
Official stressed (that {omitted}). Everything else is a modifier of some type.
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rice07
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: Re: that |
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| Bob S. wrote: |
| Everything else is a modifier of some type. |
Yes. I can tell that. But the following example is a bit difficult, especially for non-native, you have to tell them(the part in bold) their functions in the sentence from the context, because its infinitive and past participle, for ' put ' and ' come', are the same respectively.( Even ' come ' can be in this form in some sentences.)
http://forums.eslcafe.com/student/viewtopic.php?p=108746&highlight=#108746
Lavish parties tend to leave a hangover as the problems of daily life, put aside for the celebrations, come crowding back. China's Olympic party is not likely to prove an exception. The full legacy of this year's extraordinary events in the People's Republic of China will take many years to emerge, but in the short term, a number of pressing problems are clear.
My understanding of that is:
put aside for the celebrations: adjective participle phrase referring to ' the problems of daily life'
come crowding back: ' Come ' is the verb while 'the problems of daily life ' is served as the subject in that adverbial clause led by ' as '.
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: Re: that |
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| rice07 wrote: |
Lavish parties tend to leave a hangover as the problems of daily life, put aside for the celebrations, come crowding back. China's Olympic party is not likely to prove an exception. The full legacy of this year's extraordinary events in the People's Republic of China will take many years to emerge, but in the short term, a number of pressing problems are clear.
My understanding of that is:
put aside for the celebrations: adjective participle phrase referring to ' the problems of daily life'
come crowding back: ' Come ' is the verb while 'the problems of daily life ' is served as the subject in that adverbial clause led by ' as '. |
Your understanding is correct. Very good! That is a complex sentence with lots of modifiers modifying other modifiers. 
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