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Takafromtokyo Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct?

I was reading an article from NPR and I came across this sentence.

"The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concern financial industry regulation."

When I first read this, I thought it should've been "The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concerning financial industry regulation."

Am I correct?
Or, is the original sentence correct?
Or, are there any other better ways?

Thanks for your help.
  

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"The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concern financial industry regulation" is a complete sentence. The verb is "concern", the subject is everything before "concern", and the object is everything after it. "The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concerning financial industry regulation" is not a complete sentence as it does not have a main (finite) verb.

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  • "The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concern financial industry regulation" is a complete sentence.
  • The verb is "concern", the subject is everything before "concern", and the object is everything after it.
  • "The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concerning financial industry regulation" is not a complete sentence as it does not have a main (finite) verb.
  • Grammatically it could be one long noun phrase, though in practice it feels a little ungainly as such.
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"The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concern financial industry regulation" is a complete sentence. The verb is "concern", the subject is everything before "concern", and the object is everything after it.

"The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic concerning financial industry regulation" is not a complete sentence as it
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Thanks for your help. I got it.

The whole "The part of her remarks most likely to be politically problematic" is the subject of this sentence!

Then, if I make it simple, shouldn't it be, "The part of her remarks concerns financial industry regulation"?
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takafromtokyoThen, if I make it simple, shouldn't it be, "The part of her remarks concerns financial industry regulation"?
That is a grammatically possible sentence, but you have lost most of the meaning, and point, of the original. Also, to be idiomatic in this context, "The part of" needs to be changed to "Part of" or "A part of".

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Thanks for your detailed explanation!
I can learn a lot from it.
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