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BPGas Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Order of Words

Hi, 1st-time poster! This isn't really a rule question. More of a writing question.

I'm writing about the stock market. I'm talking about an investing strategy of going AGAINST the market.

So my 1st sentence: "But nor do I necessarily subscribe to such methods." (Those methods being the ones that go AGAINST the market.)

Then the tentative! beginning of the very next sentence: "Whether investing alongside or against the …"

My question is should it be "… alongside or against" or "… against or alongside?"

Usually I think it'd be "alongside or against" (going from a positive to a negative, and it just sounds better), but since the immediately preceding sentence was talking specifically about going AGAINST the market I'm now confused?

I say it to myself over and over, can't get a handle. I'm too deep in the forest to see the trees! Help? Thanks! —BP
  

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Hi, BPGas. Welcome to EnglishForward! After a paragraph discussing why you should invest against the market, the slightly awkward contrariness of saying "against or alongside" seems entirely appropriate.

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Hi, BPGas. Welcome to EnglishForward!
After a paragraph discussing why you should invest against the market, the slightly awkward contrariness of saying "against or alongside" seems entirely appropriate.
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Investing alongside sounds a bit odd to me, unless it is some kind of recognized jargon.

I'd consider investing with or against the market

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