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I saw the above on our NHS website.
What is the grammatical form and function of "as" in "as listed..."?
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You must demonstrate how your experience and skills meet the criteria [ as ____listed in the person specification ] in order for your application to be shortlisted. "As" is a preposition (function = head of bracketed PP) with a comparative clause as complement, where the PP is in construction with the nominal headed by "criteria". The "as" phrase specifies some property of what is denoted by the head noun, "criteria".
- You must demonstrate how your experience and skills meet the criteria [ as ____listed in the person specification ] in order for your application to be shortlisted.
- "As" is a preposition (function = head of bracketed PP) with a comparative clause as complement, where the PP is in construction with the nominal headed by "criteria".
- The "as" phrase specifies some property of what is denoted by the head noun, "criteria".
- We are concerned with how the criteria is listed in the person specification.
- Syntactically, the complement of "as" is a comparative clause, structurally incomplete relative to a main clause in that it has a missing subject represented by the gap notation '____' and interpreted as "the criteria".
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You must demonstrate how your experience and skills meet the criteria [as ____listed in the person specification] in order for your application to be shortlisted.
"As" is a preposition (function = head of bracketed PP) with a comparative clause as complement, where the PP is in construction wit
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