[Naruse Japanese/English Translation Course] Language and Cognition (23) Examples of 'Dynamic Understanding' of Complex Sentences (3/4)

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Then, 'as history,' comes along.

Today, most managers probably regard the “Quality Management revolution,” like the organizational learning fad of the early 1990s, as history,

With this, the elements of 'regard O as C' are complete.

Most managers regard the 'Quality Management revolution' as history.

This is the skeleton of the sentence, and additional information is fleshed out (modified) onto that skeleton. Reading dynamically up to this point, what should we predict will come next?

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First, since it ends with a comma after 'as history,'

we can predict that this sentence will continue further.

If so, what comes next must be either a modifier or a connector.

Various forms can be considered for modifiers and connectors.

It might be a single word, or it might be a phrase spanning several words.

Or, it might be a clause consisting of dozens of words.

In this way, we wait for what comes next while broadening the scope of our predictions.

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