Grammatical question

[John Dunn]

I would suggest using a cleft sentence here:

And he was the one (person) who refused us permission.

Or possibly:

and that was the one permission (that) we failed to get (were refused).

John Dunn.

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli [aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU]
Sent: 03 January 2011 00:24
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Grammatical question

In this particular case "indeed" would work, and perhaps it would work
in the class of wh- (+NP) + i + V, that is after a question word with
a possible noun or pronoun before "i".

But here's the continuation of the previous example, although not
immediately:

Иначе дело обстояло в России. Для того, чтобы сделать с перехода
снимки островов и Невы в Петербурге, пришлось испросить разрешения у
11 властей, в том числе от Градоначальника, Начальника Речной полиции,
Дворцового Коменданта, Гофмаршальской части Зимнего Дворца, Военного
Министерства, Морского Министерства и, наконец, приставов всех
полицейских участков, прилежащих к намеченному пути парохода.
Но 11 разрешений оказалось недостаточно. Оказывается, надо было
получить еще разрешение Коменданта Петропавловской Крепости, а ОН-ТО И
отказал в разрешении. (http://www.kinozapiski.ru/article/141/)

 From the beginning of this quote (inache) we expect that there will
be a failure, which finally arrives at the very end of this passage.

I am not sure "indeed" would work in this case.

AI

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