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01-14-2007, 10:32 PM
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Can "why" in this sentence be elided?
>Although it was most humiliating for a renunciant, even one of the >show-bottle brand, to return to secular life (which perhaps was one >reason why so many pseudo renunciants maintained their charade)... The sentence has other problems. The referrent for "it" is needlessly delayed. (Why not "Although returning to secular life was. . ."?) More serious: What is the antecedent of "which"? "Secular life"? "To return"? And whichever you choose, what does the parenthetical phrase *mean*? |
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