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Nhật Bình Posted 5 years ago
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In/still

More worrying still are.... is inversion, isn't it?

Could you explain to me why 'in' fits (11)?

I really appreciate your help.

  

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It is hard to understand what you are asking. What is "11", and where is "in" supposed to "fit"? "?

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It is hard to understand what you are asking. What is "11", and where is "in" supposed to "fit"? Are you asking whether "in" can replace "still" in the phrase "More worrying still are ..."?

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Nh?t BìnhCould you explain to me why 'in' fits (11)?

These disorders occur "in" children, in the sense that they are somehow "within" the body. However, we cannot quite use "in" arbitrarily for this case. For example, it would be odd to say that a certain disorder occurred "in" a named person, such as in little Timmy. The choice of "in" in your sentence is

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