Comprehending this sentence by identifying the S-V pair

Question

Hi,

This is a sentence picked up from today's Economic times Op-ed titled " Grand promises on welfare and growth cut little ice with the voter, but politics will" (Para 6th).

It is a profoundly anti-democratic statute whose wanton misuse the Supreme Court’s repeated assertion that sedition subsists only in the case of an explicit provocation of proximate violence has failed to curb.

Can anyone please help identify the S-V in above sentence or rather break down the sentence into all the grammatical parts.

Since this is my first post, GmatClub is not allowing me to paste the link. Please look up the link to the article by using the quoted sentence. The first link that comes up is the link to the article.

DivyaKnows · Answer

Please help me comprehend this sentence.

Manas1212 · Answer

Hi  DivyaKnows ,

I was unable to find the link in your post.

DivyaKnows · Answer

Hi,

Since this is my first post, GmatClub is not allowing me to paste the link. Please look up the link to the article by using the quoted sentence. The first link that comes up is the link to the article.

" It is a profoundly anti-democratic statute whose wanton misuse the Supreme Court’s repeated assertion that sedition subsists only in the case of an explicit provocation of proximate violence has failed to curb. "

Manas1212 · Answer

In India, the charge of sedition is used against people for drawing cartoons, for criticising those in power, to label student protesters as anti-nationals and to nab tribal rights activists and deny them bail.

I find a lot of errors in this sentence.
It(Charge of sedition)
is a profoundly(adverb) 
anti-democratic(Adjective) 
statute(Noun) whose wanton(adj) misuse(Subject for next has) 
 the Supreme Court’s repeated assertion that sedition subsists only in the case of an explicit provocation of proximate violence  those should be enclsoed with commas as this part is acting as a modifier.
has failed to curb.

Hope this helps  DivyaKnows

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m1033512 · Answer

I would suggest to start reading The Economist

I have read on many posts on gmatclub that the standard of the gmat RC and english matches to the standard of The Economist

This will help to improve RC as well.

Award kudos of helpful.

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DivyaKnows · Answer

Hi Manas,

I thought so too.

Could you please help post a version of the sentence that you think is right.

Thanks !

EducationAisle · Answer

Hi Divya, some  statute  (law) is being referred to here. The "Economic Times" is  criticizing  this statute, stating that this statute is anti-democratic.

The newspaper further states that this statute is being  misused  extensively,  despite  Supreme Court’s repeated assertion.

What  assertion? Well, Supreme Court has been repeatedly stating that sedition subsists only in the case of an explicit provocation of proximate violence.

Comprehending this sentence by identifying the S-V pair

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