I found it on another forum. I don't know if it is okay to ask similar questions from another forum. But it is purely for language purpose.
> He had rigged his harpoon long before and its coil of light rope was in a round basket and the end was made fast to the bitt in the bow. The fish was coming in on his circle now calm and beautiful looking and only his great tail moving. **The old man pulled on him all that he could to bring him closer**. For just a moment the fish turned a little on his side. Then he straightened himself and began another circle. [From: Ernest Hemingway THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA]
Now I have problem understanding"all that he could to bring him closer part"?
What does ot function? And meaning? Does it mean "as hard as it could" which is what it says in that forum. But if that is the case what is the function of that part in the original sentence?
@Man_From_India How did he pull? All that he could. This expresses how (hard) he pulled: as hard as he could. It is an adverbial phrase. It is slightly old-fashioned idiom.
To what purpose did he pull? To bring him closer. This expresses the purpose of the pulling. It is a second adverbial phrase.
@M.A.R. It was not mandatory, it was just pushed upon people through their work bosses. But Putin went out publicly some time ago and said that "vaccination should not be forced upon people", after which daily numbers of vaccines declined rapidly.
It was probably done to placate the public in the runup to the election due to take place Sept 19.
I would expect a surge of cases right after Sept 19, and a return to the practice of semi-mandatory vaccination
7-day sliding mean of daily vaccinations in Russia. The blue line indicates the 1st doses, you can see it going down.
I really hope that after the election, the situation will be found to "get worse" and the Government will push people to vaccinate.
But for now, with 55% of Russians unwilling to get vaccinated, Putin's United Russia party sees it as beneficial to hush down the issue.
@M.A.R. Do you have a common flu vaccination campaign each year? We have is starting in the next few days, with 1.5 mn doses shipped to Sverdlovsk Oblast to be injected free of charge (covered by state medical fund)
> The cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) that occurs as part of the rare adverse reaction to the adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines from Astra Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson is much more severe and associated with greater mortality and disability than sporadic CVT, new data show.
@CowperKettle I don't think we do but people are oddly very conscious and responsible about it and each year people always purchase so many flu vaccines that there's always a shortage.
@CowperKettle It was done to troll Americans obviously.
@M.A.R. Here, people go like "A flu vaccine? Eww. Are you so weak or old or frail? I don't need it."
At least my friends.
My friend Olga has been to the mountain forests in the East again this summer, and still without even a tick borne encephalitis shot, although the encephalitis strain there is more deadly than in the Urals.
She again rode a horse for a full week in the woods. She loves it.
I should try it.
> A peculiar view from above of the completely hollowed out St. Elizabeths Hospital (South East Washington) while works for its restoration were ongoing in 2017
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