[Grammar] Clause analysation

[elisa tey]

I had this extracted from a recent NY times.

During the Depression of the 1930s, that meant listening to the radio and playing parlor and board games, sometimes in lieu of a glamorous night on the town.

Would anyone please kindly analyse the clause elements? and which of it is the subject?

thank you.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Originally Posted by elisa tey

I have extracted this from a recent NY Times.

During the Depression of the 1930s, that meant listening to the radio and playing parlor and board games, sometimes in lieu of a glamorous night on the town.

Would anyone please kindly analyze the clause elements? And which of it is the subject?

Thank you.

Subject: that (Refers to something in the previous sentence.)
Verb: meant
Object: listening (A gerund.)

Everything before meant is a separate dependent clause that answers the question: When? (During is the clue.)
Everything after listening answers the question: Listening to what? (To is the clue.)

[BobK]

Incidentally, it's an analysis.

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