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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

As + be

Hope you will help clarify it for me.


"As is often the case with collections of lecture by different authors, the book as a whole is disconnected."


What is left out between "as" and "is"?


The other example is:
"Johnson was well aware of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic or pedantic, as was the case with the worst products of the neoclassical school."



  

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''As is '' is acctually As it is. As was would be As it was . it is removed because it sounds odd and it's quite obvious in the meaning.

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  • ''As is '' is acctually As it is.
  • As was would be As it was .
  • it is removed because it sounds odd and it's quite obvious in the meaning.
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''As is '' is acctually As it is.

As was would be As it was.

it is removed because it sounds odd and it's quite obvious in the meaning.
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Thank you. Does it accord to any grammatical rule or just becuase it sounds odd?
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I would take a slightly different view. You can rephrase the sentence as follows:

1. The book as a whole is disconnected, as is often the case with collections of lecture by different authors.

"As" here is a pronoun. It means "a fact that". It stands for a notion that is implicit in the clause to which it relates.

MrP
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I hear it as simple inversion, which I think is a peculiarity of the word "case", not "as". Therefore, I don't think anything has been left out. If anything, it's the "so" that's omitted (when the "as" clause precedes).

As [the case / the situation] often is with collections ..., ([so / in the same way]) the book as a whole is disconnected.

Johnson was well aware of ...
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Thank you masters. Thank you for the specifics.

I found another one,
"His famous argument against the slavish following of the 'three unities' of classical drama is a good example, as is his defense of the supposedly illegitimate 'tragicomic' mode of Shakespeare's latest plays." And it's an inversion for me too.
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I'd agree that this use of "case" seems a little loose. I wonder whether the writer has conflated two concepts, i.e.

1. "Johnson was well aware of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic or pedantic, [which was a characteristic] of the worst products of the neoclassical school."

where "which" refers back to "the sterility..."; and

2. "Johnson was well awa
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MrPedantic2. "Johnson was well aware of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic or pedantic, [as were] the worst products of the neoclassical school."

MrP

I don't get the second one, MrP. I think it should be:
Johnson was well aware of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic or pedantic; the worst pr
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Jeff_999
MrPedantic2. "Johnson was well aware of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic or pedantic, [as were] the worst products of the neoclassical school."

MrP

I don't get the second one, MrP. I think it should be:
Johnson was well aware of the sterility of literary criticism that is legalistic
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