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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Is this correct?
She handled the divorce as well as she could have.
Is this correct?
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Yes, but more natural is eg She handled the divorce as well as she could have .
- Yes, but more natural is eg She handled the divorce as well as she could have .
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Yes, but more natural is eg She handled the divorce as well as she could have.
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She handled the divorce as well as she could have.
Yes, it's fine.
The underlined expression is a comparative clause, and such clauses are obligatorily reduced in certain ways relative to the structure of main clauses.
In your example, the complement of "have" is left understood. In full it would be "she could have handled the divorce". Note that the reduction c
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