blwings
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- Sep 16, 2020
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- Korean
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- South Korea
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- South Korea
"The chances that the spring, that's for everyone, like in the popular songs, may belong to us too — the chances are pretty bright at this time because as usual, I can carry most of contemporary literary opinion, liquidated, in the hollow of my hand — and when I do, I see the swan floating on it and — I find it to be you and you only."
I met this sentence in F. Scott Fitzgerald's letter to his wife Zelda.
I wonder if there is an ellipsis of "are" in the bolded part because I saw the phrase "the chances are that" a lot of times.
I met this sentence in F. Scott Fitzgerald's letter to his wife Zelda.
I wonder if there is an ellipsis of "are" in the bolded part because I saw the phrase "the chances are that" a lot of times.