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It is crucial to understand at what point in the history of punctual space exploration it was that Malachi Constant received the news of his prospective visits to Mars, Mercury, Earth, and Titan.
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What 'it was' mean?
'It was' point out 'that Malachi ~~'?
It is crucial to understand at what point in the history of punctual space exploration it was that Malachi Constant received the news of his prospective visits to Mars, Mercury, Earth, and Titan.
This sentence is too difficult to understand for me!
What 'it was' mean?
'It was' point out 'that Malachi ~~'?
This sentence is too difficult to understand for me!
What 'it was' mean?
'It was' point out 'that Malachi ~~'?
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It means at what point of time in the history of punctual space did Malachi received the news.
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@Sopheox:
It is crucial to understand it was at what point in the history of punctual space exploration that Malachi Constant received the news of his prospective visits to Mars, Mercury, Earth, and Titan.
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Can I change the place of 'it was' like this?
It is crucial to understand it was at what point in the history of punctual space exploration that Malachi Constant received the news of his prospective visits to Mars, Mercury, Earth, and Titan.
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Can I change the place of 'it was' like this?
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@ajtgjmajtgjm: no you shouldn't. it can be like this though :
It is crucial to understand at what point it was in the history of punctual space exploration that Malachi Constant received the news of his prospective visits to Mars, Mercury, Earth, and Titan.
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No. It would make the sentence more awkward. If you're going to fix the sentence to be more simpler, it should be like:
"It is crucial to understand the point in history of punctual space of exploration that Malachi constantly received news of his prospective visits to Mars, Mercury, Earth and Titan."
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I think "it was" makes the sentence a bit clearer because it links the two parts of the sentence. "it was" relates back to "at what point".
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"it was" makes the sentence a bit clearer!
Now it makes sense!
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Now it makes sense!
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