まさかそれが、あのような惨劇{さんげき}を引{ひ}き起{お}こす事{こと}になるとは、知{し}るよしもなかったのです。
What if 「まさかそれが、」 is at the beginning of a sentence? What does it mean? Would it mean something like "That's it,"?
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Sign up to join this communityまさかそれが、あのような惨劇{さんげき}を引{ひ}き起{お}こす事{こと}になるとは、知{し}るよしもなかったのです。
What if 「まさかそれが、」 is at the beginning of a sentence? What does it mean? Would it mean something like "That's it,"?
まさか is a guiding adverb that leads to an expression of something unexpected. それが is the subject for the verb 引き起こす.
まさか
andそれが
. There really isn't a special meaning, just those two expressions in one chunk.まさか
is often used to show how surprised someone is that something happened. – Jesse Good Aug 11 '15 at 23:00