What does “within a year or so” modify here？
"Within a year or so, Paul was boasting that they had already written between seventy and one hundred songs"

what does “within a year or so” modify here？

Does it modify the whole sentence？namely, it means that Paul was boasting within a year?
or it just modify the clause,means they had already written between seventy and one hundred songs with in a year or so?

Thanks~

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What does  “within a year or so” modify here？
"Within a year or so, Paul was boasting that they had already written between seventy and one hundred songs"

what does “within a year or so” modify here？

Does it modify the whole sentence？namely, it means that Paul was boasting within a year?
or it just modify the clause,means they had already written between seventy and one hundred songs with in a year or so?

Thanks~

Answer

Think about it logically. People don't think about grammar when they write things. Many native speakers don't even learn grammar. They just write what 'makes sense'. Do you think about what clauses you are modifying when you say something?
What makes sense, is that he boasted after a year or so. You can probably assume that he was boasting about something that had also happened within that year or so, but you can't be sure.

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