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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Appear As- Idiom
Combining enormous physical strength with higher intelligence, the Neanderthals appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,but their relatively sudden disappearance during the Paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.
ETS says Because Neanderthals “disappeared,” the verb describing their apparent abilities cannot be present tense, so as equipped must be changed to to have been equipped and As equipped indicates that Neanderthals still appear this way.
1.why does it say appear as equipped indicates that they still appear this way.. ?
2.what difference does it make if I change appear as to perfect infinitive?
Please help me
ETS says Because Neanderthals “disappeared,” the verb describing their apparent abilities cannot be present tense, so as equipped must be changed to to have been equipped and As equipped indicates that Neanderthals still appear this way.
1.why does it say appear as equipped indicates that they still appear this way.. ?
2.what difference does it make if I change appear as to perfect infinitive?
Please help me
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1. -- In the first place, 'appear as equipped for facing' is bad grammar plus poor style. It should have read either 'appear equipped to face' or 'appear to be equipped to face'-- both of which would remove 'equipped' from the past and place it in the universal non-past - incorrectly, as ETS states.
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- -- In the first place, 'appear as equipped for facing' is bad grammar plus poor style.
- It should have read either 'appear equipped to face' or 'appear to be equipped to face'-- both of which would remove 'equipped' from the past and place it in the universal non-past - incorrectly, as ETS states.
- what difference does it make if I change appear as to perfect infinitive?
- -- Changing to 'appear to have been equipped' makes it clear that the appearance is now, to us, but the equipment was in the past, in the Pleistocene epoch.
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1. Why does it say 'appear as equipped' indicates that they still appear this way ?-- In the first place, 'appear as equipped for facing' is bad grammar plus poor style. It should have read either 'appear equipped to face' or 'appear to be equipped to face'-- both of which would remove 'equipped' from the past and place it in the universal non-past - incorrectly, as ETS states.
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Mister Micawber It should have read either 'appear equipped to face' or 'appear to be equipped to face'-- both of which would remove 'equipped' from the past and place it in the universal non-pastThanks Mister Micawber,
Forgive me for my ignorance .... I don't see why appear equipped to face would put equipped in the universal
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No, it is a passive form: appear to be equipped [by evolution]. That's why you need to put it into a past passive form: appear to have been equipped [by evolution].
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