Grammar structure
Darwin held that many more individuals are produced than can find food and survive into adulthood.
Could you explain the grammatically strucre used in this sentence?
I can catch the drift of this sentence, but its grammar baffles me.??
I guess the write omitted the pronoun 'they' before the modal verb 'can', didn't they?
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t Bình Could you explain the grammatically strucre used in this sentence? grammatical The way I see it, "than" is a conjunction there and briges the subject of the "that" clause, "individuals", between "are produced" and "can find food". Think of the "but" in "individuals are produced but cannot find food", except "more … than" creates the contrast instead of "but cannot".
- t Bình Could you explain the grammatically strucre used in this sentence?
- grammatical The way I see it, "than" is a conjunction there and briges the subject of the "that" clause, "individuals", between "are produced" and "can find food".
- Think of the "but" in "individuals are produced but cannot find food", except "more … than" creates the contrast instead of "but cannot".
- There is nothing omitted.
- This is not an uncommon structure.
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Nh?t BìnhCould you explain the grammatically strucre used in this sentence?
grammatical
The way I see it, "than" is a conjunction there and briges the subject of the "that" clause, "individuals", between "are produced" and "can find food". Think of the "but" in "individuals are produced but cannot find food", except "more … than" creates the co
0Nh?t BìnhDarwin held that many more individuals are produced than (the number of individuals) (who) can find food and survive into adulthood.
See above. Does that help?
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