takes next step

[GoodTaste]

Does the phrase "takes next step" mean "takes next step to have proven that religion is nonsense"?

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Other books show that religion is nonsense. The Earthbound Parent by Richard Conn humanely & sympathetically takes next step. Religion is nonsense but how to raise happy, moral children without it? (Royalties kindly donated to Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science)

--Richard Dawkins

 

[Rover_KE]

Did it not say '...humanely and sympathetically takes the next step'?

 

[GoodTaste]

Did it not say '...humanely and sympathetically takes the next step'?

The question is the next step of what.

He tweeted.

 

[emsr2d2]

Tweets aren't good examples of decent grammar. People frequently shorten their sentences by omitting words that are required for a grammatical sentence.

 

[GoodTaste]

Tweets aren't good examples of decent grammar. People frequently shorten their sentences by omitting words that are required for a grammatical sentence.

that’s right. But sometimes information first, grammar second.

The question remains as it is.

 

[emsr2d2]

That’s right. But sometimes it's information first, grammar second.

I'm aware of that. I'm simply pointing out to you and other learners that tweets are frequently ungrammatical, and sometimes their ungrammaticalness make them almost incomprehensible to non-native speakers.

 

[PeterCW]

Does the phrase "takes next step" mean "takes next step to have proven that religion is nonsense"?

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Other books show that religion is nonsense. The Earthbound Parent by Richard Conn humanely & sympathetically takes next step. Religion is nonsense but how to raise happy, moral children without it? (Royalties kindly donated to Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science)

--Richard Dawkins

The answer is in the next sentence, I have highlighted it for you.

 

[emsr2d2]

As if to confirm my claim that tweets can be ungrammatical, the writer used "How to" to construct a question!

 

[GoodTaste]

As if to confirm my claim that tweets can be ungrammatical, the writer used "How to" to construct a question!

That's it! That is why I kept using "how to..." structure to form a question until you insisted the full form rule must be followed in this forum. Dawkins is former Oxford University's Professor, as influential as Stephen Hawking in my mind. The God Delusion by him is as brilliant as A Brief History of Time by Hawking: both profoundly impressed me.

 

[Rover_KE]

OK. We will accept and discuss quotes from their books, but not from their tweets.