Grammatically correct?
It was not always so easy to understand the calendar we use today as now.
Is the sentence grammatically correct? If not, please explain it.
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It is not strictly ungrammatical, but it is rather awkward because of the gap between "so easy ... as now". I would change it to this: It was not always as easy as it is now to understand the calendar we use today.
- It is not strictly ungrammatical, but it is rather awkward because of the gap between "so easy ...
- as now".
- I would change it to this: It was not always as easy as it is now to understand the calendar we use today.
- I don't really know why it was harder to understand in the past, since the modern calendar was devised based on an adequate understanding.
- But that is what the sentence says.
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It is not strictly ungrammatical, but it is rather awkward because of the gap between "so easy ... as now". I would change it to this:
It was not always as easy as it is now to understand the calendar we use today.
I don't really know why it was harder to understand in the past, since the modern calendar was devised based on an adequate understanding. But that is what the se
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