Waawe
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Hey everyone,
the other day I came across an article one sentence of which I cant figure out. Will you kindly try to make me understood? You can find the whole text at
Why Kosovo Divides Europe - TIME.
The tricky part for me is the section
"And it's such long-standing fissures that pop up across the continent — many of whose modern nation states folded in diverse kingdoms and peoples — that shape Europe's responses to Kosovo's historic, and potentially precedent-setting, declaration of independence. "
I understand all the sentence perfectly but the part between the dashes. Frankly, I cant tell the subject or predicate i the clause, I dont understand well the phrase many of whose, either. What does the word whose refer to? Fissures?
Could you restate the part between the dashes for me to finally get the meaning across to me?
Thank you all. :up:
the other day I came across an article one sentence of which I cant figure out. Will you kindly try to make me understood? You can find the whole text at
Why Kosovo Divides Europe - TIME.
The tricky part for me is the section
"And it's such long-standing fissures that pop up across the continent — many of whose modern nation states folded in diverse kingdoms and peoples — that shape Europe's responses to Kosovo's historic, and potentially precedent-setting, declaration of independence. "
I understand all the sentence perfectly but the part between the dashes. Frankly, I cant tell the subject or predicate i the clause, I dont understand well the phrase many of whose, either. What does the word whose refer to? Fissures?
Could you restate the part between the dashes for me to finally get the meaning across to me?
Thank you all. :up: