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Avidlearner Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

I cannot the meaning of this sentence.

Hello teachers,

I cannot understand this sentence grammatically. Please make it clear to me.

The sentence is, "With 25 million software developers expected by 2020, the pool from which to draw from is immense. "


what does it mean?

  

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Avidlearner what does it mean? That sentence is a little clumsy, but: Considering that (with) 25 million software developers will probably exist (expected) by 2020 (when the year 2020 arrives), the number of prospective people (the pool) that we will be able to select from (from which to draw) is immense.

  • Avidlearner what does it mean?
  • That sentence is a little clumsy, but: Considering that (with) 25 million software developers will probably exist (expected) by 2020 (when the year 2020 arrives), the number of prospective people (the pool) that we will be able to select from (from which to draw) is immense.
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Avidlearnerwhat does it mean?

That sentence is a little clumsy, but:

Considering that (with) 25 million software developers will probably exist (expected) by 2020 (when the year 2020 arrives), the number of prospective people (the pool) that we will be able to select from (from which to draw) is immense.

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AvidlearnerWith 25 million software developers expected by 2020, the pool from which to draw from is immense.

Because we expect that there will be 25 million software developers by 2020, we will have a very large number of people to choose from when we want to hire one.

Grammatically, it's a participle clause introduced by "with" followed by an indepe

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