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Taruns1008 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

#1 The meeting was as successful as had been expected.

#2 The meeting was as successful as it had been expected.

Why sentence #2 is incorrect here? Should we not mention subject for "as clause"?
  

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"The meeting was as successful as it had been expected" would mean that the meeting was successful to the same extent that the meeting had been expected to take place. It seems a rather strange comparison.

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  • "The meeting was as successful as it had been expected" would mean that the meeting was successful to the same extent that the meeting had been expected to take place.
  • It seems a rather strange comparison.
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"The meeting was as successful as it had been expected" would mean that the meeting was successful to the same extent that the meeting had been expected to take place. It seems a rather strange comparison.
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GPY"The meeting was as successful as it had been expected" would mean that the meeting was successful to the same extent that the meeting had been expected to take place. It seems a rather strange comparison.
What about this sentence "She saw that there was nothing else she could do because the room was as clean as it had never been before.

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"... as clean as it had ever been before."
"... cleaner than it had ever been before."
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