when I'm studying in my course L.G. Alexander's Fluency in English, I've this passage ... :embarassed:
"It's hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers.Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be improverished settlement cut off from civilization by the high mountain. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine."
what is the grammatical arrangement of this italic words ( were were )
"It's hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers.Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be improverished settlement cut off from civilization by the high mountain. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine."
what is the grammatical arrangement of this italic words ( were were )