Many of them efforts

[Man_From_India]

Please analyse this sentence:

So while some traditional trades - malster and blacksmith - had declined or vanished, they had been replaced by others, many of them efforts New Agey, Back-to-the-Land, and Save-the-Planet in nature.

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[Barb_D]

There are words missing. I"m not sure what it's supposed to be. Something like "many of them efforts of "New Age," "back to the land," or "save the planet" movements.

 

[Man_From_India]

Whatever the missing word is it shout come after "efforts", right? I'm having problem understanding the usage of "many of them efforts"

 

[Frank Antonson1]

Please analyse this sentence:


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An awkward sentence. Before "many" I would put a dash and consider the rest an afterthought. To make it into a complete sentence, you would have to supply "were", or something like it. "Malster and blacksmith" could be considered an appositive modified by an understood "for example.

If you really want, I will diagram it according to Reed-Kellogg, but on Youtube. With a keyboard, diagramming is too tedious.