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Handurs kancha Posted 9 years ago
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Recently I noticed a sentence in a news paper which read:
'As the US government is a helpless spectator to the Taliban's activities in Afghanistan, so is the Syrian government to ISIS in the middle east.'
Is it a grammatically correct sentence?
  

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  • The sentence is fine.
  • 'A helpless spectator' is elided from the second clause.
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Hello, Handurs, and welcome to English Forums. Thank you for registering as a member.
The sentence is fine. 'A helpless spectator' is elided from the second clause.
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Handurs kancha Recently I noticed a sentence in a news paper which read:'As the US government is a helpless spectator to the Taliban's activities in Afghanistan, so is the Syrian government to ISIS in the middle east.'Is it a grammatically correct sentence?
"so" can be used before the verb "is" followed by the clause subject, here "the Syrian government". Such
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