Kengo
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- Jan 2, 2011
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- Japanese
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- Japan
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Hello people,
I was reading an article on Barack Obama's passive attitude towards gun control. I understand the gist of the artcle but there was one sentense that didn't grammatically make sense to me.
Two years of silence suggest Obama feels hemmed in by the zeal of the gun lobby, whose aversion to any Second Amendment limitations are widely thought to have backfired on Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
In the second half, I believe "whose aversion" is the subjest and "are" the verb of the sentense but it appears to me that the verb should be "is" because the subject is singular.
Or is there anything I'm missing...??
Any help would be appreciated.
I was reading an article on Barack Obama's passive attitude towards gun control. I understand the gist of the artcle but there was one sentense that didn't grammatically make sense to me.
Two years of silence suggest Obama feels hemmed in by the zeal of the gun lobby, whose aversion to any Second Amendment limitations are widely thought to have backfired on Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
In the second half, I believe "whose aversion" is the subjest and "are" the verb of the sentense but it appears to me that the verb should be "is" because the subject is singular.
Or is there anything I'm missing...??
Any help would be appreciated.
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