In your view, in the following sentence if the verb " is" is not absent?
the child understands that learning to read the page is not only possible but probably is not all that difficult.
the verb that i think is absent is the red part
not all that
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Re: not all that
The sentence would be perfectly OK, if not slightly more natural, without the repetition of 'is'.