Grammar Structure

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I did a reading exercise several days ago and the below sentence is extracted from this reading passage.

'As well as having high household incomes, volunteers also tend to have higher academic qualifications, be in higher socio-economic groups and be in employment.'

Could you analyse the grammtical structure in this sentence?

"be in higher socio-economic groups and be in employment" made me confused.

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Nh?t BìnhI did a reading exercise several days ago and the below sentence is extracted from this reading passage.

Do not use "the below sentence". It is the sentence below.

Nh?t BìnhCould you analyse the grammtical structure in this sentence?

It sounds non-native, mostly because of "be in employment".

Nh?t Bình"be in higher socio-economic groups and be in employment" made me confused.

There is a list that applies to "tend to". The writer has let the infinitive particle "to" be distributed along the list, but that was not a good idea, partly because the particle belongs to the verb each time. The structure is "volunteers also tend to have higher academic qualifications, (volunteers also tend to) be in higher socio-economic groups and (volunteers also tend to) be in employment." It would have been better to make it something more like "As well as having high household incomes, volunteers also tend to have higher academic qualifications, to be in higher socio-economic groups, and to be employed."

Teechr · Answer

Nh?t BìnhI did a reading exercise several days ago and the ~~below~~ sentence below was in it. ~~is extracted from this reading passage~~.

Note that whereas "above" can be used either before or after a noun, "below" only comes after a noun.

Nh?t BìnhCould you analyse the grammatical structure in this sentence?

"Tend to" applies to three things.

Volunteers tend to:

1- have higher academic qualifications,

2- be in higher socio-economic groups

3- be in employment.'

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