Hello guys
I'm still stuck to reading
Washington Post's article "A Passage to Harvard", a story about a Harvard girl student who committed plagiarism in writing her teen-literature.
This question is originally given to me by a Japanese learner of English, who is trying to read the article. The question is about how we should read the article's last sentence:
| And Viswanathan, perhaps, has learned a lesson that the admissions industrial complex does its best to obscure: There are more things to cry about than not getting into Harvard. |
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What troubles us here is how to grammatically parse the phrase after the colon: "There are more things to cry about than getting into Harvard". Is the phrase working as the object of the verb "obscure"? Or is it a phrase put appositively to "a lesson" (the object of "has learned) ?
paco