Linguistic question re IV

János Széky miksaapja at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 04:41:04 CDT 2011


There is Jade apologizing on page 84: "...the cops told us they'd drop
charges if we just put you at the scene, which they already knew you
were so where was the harm..."
The syntax seems to be elliptical here so please tell me what 'which
they already knew you were' means exactly.

Thanks,
János



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