dont les derniers hectomètres

08:17 Mar 31, 2017 

Thanks for the clarification! I think I got bogged down with the réalisées... must be a typo. If I had recognised it as "qui seront/sont réalisés" I would have understood immediately!

05:53 Mar 31, 2017 

(ran out of space!)

It's also perhaps worth bearing in mind that when the sense actually requires 'including', FR has the option of using 'y compris' — hence when something else is used instead, I always like to reflect on why that might be?

I hope my explanation makes sense, and adequately addresses the points you raised?

:-)

05:50 Mar 31, 2017 

Thank you for raising those points — and doing so in such a nice way!

First of all, it is indeed easy to lose sight of the fact that the underlying meaning of 'dont' is always 'of which', even though of course in most everyday circumstances that can be more readily rendered as 'including', etc. — but sometimes in EN, the syntax requires a different part of speech; consider, "250 personnes, dont la moitié femmes" > "half of whom are women". I just felt that in the particular situation here, this made it easier to fit into the sentence without having to restructure it too much — and also, better conveys the notion: 'the final stages of something' to me makes more sense than 'including the final stages'.

As for the verb issue, which I raised as you may have noticed in my suggestion below: I have frequently observed this construction in FR, where a past participle is used without an accompanying auxiliary, as we would expect in EN.

So my reading is: 'the final stages of which ... [are] carried out by/in/at/etc. OpCops' — in EN, we could use a similar construction without an auxiliary by using 'with' instead: 'with the final stages... carried out by/in/at/etc. OpCops'.

21:06 Mar 30, 2017 

I am not criticising in any way, but I don't understand how "dont" can be translated by 'of which' here. Surely, in that case, there should be another verb? "Of which the final stages of price negotiation etc. etc. + verb?"
I note also that there is "réalisées", and I don't understand, even on several careful readings, what "réalisées" qualifies. I would be grateful for all enlightenment. I put this in DB as I wouldn't have room to ask Tony directly in his answer box. TIA