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The country’s gross national income last year posted its slowest growth since 1998.
I think that ‘last year’ can modify both ‘income’ and ‘posted’ and there is no meaning difference, right?
Or should I think that ‘last year’ modifies ‘income’ just because ‘last year’ is behind the noun ‘income’?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
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Hans51 The country’s gross national income last year posted its slowest growth since 1998. Here 'last year' modifies "the country's gross national income". If it was supposed to modify 'posted' the placement of 'last year' would be like this: The country’s gross national income posted its slowest growth since 1998 last year.
- Hans51 The country’s gross national income last year posted its slowest growth since 1998.
- Here 'last year' modifies "the country's gross national income".
- If it was supposed to modify 'posted' the placement of 'last year' would be like this: The country’s gross national income posted its slowest growth since 1998 last year.
- The meaning is the same either way.
- CJ
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Hans51The country’s gross national income last year posted its slowest growth since 1998.
Here 'last year' modifies "the country's gross national income".
If it was supposed to modify 'posted' the placement of 'last year' would be like this:
The country’s gross national income posted its slowest growth since 1998 last year.
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