were prohibited, were antithetical

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Microctg

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Is it possible that there can be two be verbs without any conjunctions (such as and or but) in the sentence below?

"The sustained intellectual output around the idea of Islamic media that I have been charting contrasted with the recurring arguments of some scholars and preachers in Saudi Arabia and Egypt that different modern media were religiously prohibited, were antithetical to piety."
 
    • Yes, it's possible to construct a sentence this way, and its not uncommon, though it's perhaps more common to use a conjunction. I would say omitting the conjunction is more common in spoken rather than written English, but that could just be my perception.

    It would be more comon to see the second were replaced by and:

    that different modern media were religiously prohibited, and antithetical to piety."
     
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    Janey UK said:
    Yes, it's possible to construct a sentence this way, though it's more common to use a conjunction. I would say omitting the conjunction is more common in spoken rather than written English, but that could just be my perception.

    It would be more comon to see the second were replaced by and:

    that different modern media were religiously prohibited, and antithetical to piety."
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    Thank you very much for your valuable reply.
     
    This is called asyndeton:
    • The omission of conjunctions, as in "He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.''
    And yes, it works with verbs as in the OP.
     
    Microctg said:
    "The sustained intellectual output around the idea of Islamic media that I have been charting contrasted with the recurring arguments of some scholars and preachers in Saudi Arabia and Egypt that different modern media were religiously prohibited, were antithetical to piety."
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    Please tell us where you found this sentence.
     
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