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Persian Learner Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct?

Hi.

The more life expectancy have the nations, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.

Is the above sentence grammatical?
  

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Is the above sentence grammatical? The first part is wrong, but otherwise it's OK. The greater the life expectancy in a nation, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.

— CalifJim

  • Is the above sentence grammatical?
  • The first part is wrong, but otherwise it's OK.
  • The greater the life expectancy in a nation, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.
  • CJ
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Persian LearnerHi.The more life expectancy have the nations, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.Is the above sentence grammatical?
The first part is wrong, but otherwise it's OK.

The greater the life expectancy in a nation, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.

CJ
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You mean that in such a structure we shouldn't write a sentence in both parts, right?

And why have you put the before life expectancy?
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Persian LearnerYou mean that in such a structure we shouldn't write a sentence in both parts, right?
No. I mean that the only errors in your sentence were located in the first part of the sentence.
Persian LearnerAnd why have you put the before life expectancy?
That's the grammatical pattern that is used in English for that
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What about this one?

The greater the life expectancy have the nations, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.


I suppose you are calling it wrong again, but why is it wrong? Would you please spot the problem area?
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Persian LearnerThe greater the life expectancy have the nations, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.
The problem here is word order. Reverse it to 'the nations have'. There's a hidden relative clause there.

... the life expectancy [(that) the nations have], ...

CJ
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I regarded it as inversion structure.

The greater the life expectancy the nations have, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.

Is the above OK?
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Persian LearnerI regarded it as inversion structure. The greater the life expectancy the nations have, the more hospital beds are available per thousand people.Is the above OK?
Yes.

CJ
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Why can't inversion structure be used in that context?Emotion: crying
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Persian LearnerWhy can't inversion structure be used in that context?
There is no inversion trigger in your sentence. You have no initial negative, no initial 'only', and no question. Comparative correlatives don't contain inversion unless it's for one of the other reasons we use inversion. I don't even understand what you saw in the sentence that made you
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