Hello, Grammar Exchange members!
I ran across the following sentence while listening to a short NPR News clip.
1. To China now, which less than a decade ago was still forcing women to get abortions if they had more than one child.
What bothers me is the part in bold print. First of all, is #1 a sentence? I'm not sure whether it's a sentence or not because of "To China."
What do you think?
Thanks in advance
-KDog
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Hello, KDog,
@KDog posted:I ran across the following sentence while listening to a short NPR News clip.
1. To China now, which less than a decade ago was still forcing women to get abortions if they had more than one child.
What bothers me is the part in bold print. First of all, is #1 a sentence? I'm not sure whether it's a sentence or not because of "To China."
My understanding is that the subject and the verb have been elided above, the full sentence being:
- Let's go to China now, which less than a decade ago ...
The reporter must have been dealing with international news from different countries, and introduced the report that way to explain that a new topic was going to be addressed.
@Gustavo, Co-Moderator posted:Hello, KDog,
My understanding is that the subject and the verb have been elided above, the full sentence being:
- Let's go to China now, which less than a decade ago ...
The reporter must have been dealing with international news from different countries, and introduced the report that way to explain that a new topic was going to be addressed.
Hi, Gustavo! I've never thought about that. Thank you for your insight!
