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B.J Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Confident
I don't understand underlined sentense.
It is certainly not suprising that, in this economy of scarcity and high needs, bisiness people directed most of their efforts toward increasing their output, confident that the needs of consumers would absorb it.
In this case, I think confident is adjective and subject is what? bisiness people? Is it grammatically ok?
thanks in advance.
It is certainly not suprising that, in this economy of scarcity and high needs, bisiness people directed most of their efforts toward increasing their output, confident that the needs of consumers would absorb it.
In this case, I think confident is adjective and subject is what? bisiness people? Is it grammatically ok?
thanks in advance.
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Yes, it's fine. The subject is business people as you mentioned.
- Yes, it's fine.
- The subject is business people as you mentioned.
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I think sentence that start adjective is uncommon. Do you know anythig else start adjective?
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Hi Ferdis,
I think this is an example of a complex sentence consisiting of one independent clause and two dependent clauses. The independent clause is also the main clause and I would think the subject is contained within the main clause. I'm not really sure what you'd call the first 'it'.
I think this is an example of a complex sentence consisiting of one independent clause and two dependent clauses. The independent clause is also the main clause and I would think the subject is contained within the main clause. I'm not really sure what you'd call the first 'it'.
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The thing is that I don't know how to parse the underlined part without putting the participle 'being' in front of it. Like so:
It is certainly not suprising that, in this economy of scarcity and high needs, business people directed most of their efforts toward increasing their output, being confident that the needs of consumers would absorb it.
In that c
It is certainly not suprising that, in this economy of scarcity and high needs, business people directed most of their efforts toward increasing their output, being confident that the needs of consumers would absorb it.
In that c
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