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English 1b3 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

'As phrase preceding a main clause'

Does the 'as phrase' need to answer the question 'why?' with respect to the succeeding clause?

Here, the 'as phrase' answers why he is looked up to by many:

a. As one of the best hockey players in Canada, he is looked up to by many.

Here, the 'as phrase' does not answer why he enjoys family outings etc.

b. As one of the best hockey players in Canada, he enjoys family outings and trips to his beach house on the Sunshine Coast.
  

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English 1b3Does the 'as phrase' need to answer the question 'why?'
No.
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AlpheccaStarsNo.
Thanks. So you are happy with both sentences above?
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English 1b3Thanks. So you are happy with both sentences above?
They are OK.
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Would you say it is best to leave off 'as'? Would you say it affects the meaning in any way?

As one of the best hockey players in Canada, he enjoys family outings and trips to his beach house on the Sunshine Coast.

Rewrite: One of the best hockey players in Canada, he enjoys family outings and trips to his beach house on the Sunshine Coast.
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There is not any difference in meaning.
I usually prefer to omit unnecessary words.
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English 1b3Does the 'as phrase' need to answer the question 'why?' with respect to the succeeding clause?
I don't think so. Nevertheless, your example b seems a bit of a non-sequitur to my ear.

Similarly, but with further exaggeration:

As the winner of the 2010 chess championship, she enjoys watching television.
As mayor of the
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"As one of the best hockey players in Canada, he enjoys family outings and trips to his beach house on the Sunshine Coast."

I'd argue that there is some sort incoherence in the sentence: what does his enjoying family outings and trips to his beach house on the Sunshine Coast have to do with him being one of the best hockey players in Canada? In my opinion, nothing.

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CalifJimSimilarly, but with further exaggeration:As the winner of the 2010 chess championship, she enjoys watching television.As mayor of the city, he is capable of standing on his head for up to two hours.As chef of a big restaurant downtown, he built a little dog house for his pet spaniel.
So the description of the subject ("As one of the best hockey...")
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English 1b3So the description of the subject ("As one of the best hockey...") needs to relate to the main clause??
I would imagine that, for the purposes of clarity, all clauses within any sentence should relate to the others in the same sentence in some way or another. But that's not really saying much.
English 1b3What if we re
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