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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
initiate policies
Deng’s successors have seen their capacity to single-handedly initiate policies diminish.
If I change the word order in this way:
Deng’s successors have seen their capacity to initiate policies single-handedly diminish.
Do you think it's right?
If I change the word order in this way:
Deng’s successors have seen their capacity to initiate policies single-handedly diminish.
Do you think it's right?
Top answer
It's harder to read because one tends to associate "single-handedly" with "diminish" before realising that this doesn't make much sense and then having to backtrack.
- It's harder to read because one tends to associate "single-handedly" with "diminish" before realising that this doesn't make much sense and then having to backtrack.
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It's harder to read because one tends to associate "single-handedly" with "diminish" before realising that this doesn't make much sense and then having to backtrack.
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This is the original texts:
Like Mao, Deng enjoyed a mix of traditional and charismatic authority. But the leaders who followed him earned their legitimacy in different ways. Jiang (who ruled from 1989 to 2002) and Hu (ruling
from 2002 to 2012) to various extents were both designated as leaders by Deng himself, and Xi’s elevation to the top position, in 2012, was the product of a collectiv
Like Mao, Deng enjoyed a mix of traditional and charismatic authority. But the leaders who followed him earned their legitimacy in different ways. Jiang (who ruled from 1989 to 2002) and Hu (ruling
from 2002 to 2012) to various extents were both designated as leaders by Deng himself, and Xi’s elevation to the top position, in 2012, was the product of a collectiv
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