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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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read a sentence in PDF file

I read this sentence in a pdf

Could you tell me if you think it was written by a native, if it is naturally stated.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2003:0225:FIN:EN:PDF


Belgium and Luxembourg, which have relatively large amounts of aid to the railway sector, also *find themselves much lower down the ranking when aid to these three sectors is excluded.*

the bold doesn't seem right to me.*

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The text seems to be written by an English speaker, yes. I noticed no oddities in the surrounding text: This new indicator produces a rather different ranking of Member States (Graph 1). 38%.

— Mister Micawber

  • The text seems to be written by an English speaker, yes.
  • I noticed no oddities in the surrounding text: This new indicator produces a rather different ranking of Member States (Graph 1).
  • 38%.
  • Belgium and Luxembourg, which have relatively large amounts of aid to the railway sector, also find themselves much lower down the ranking when aid to these three sectors is excluded.
  • State aid may also be expressed in per capita terms, using purchasing power standards which take account of differences in price levels between countries.
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The text seems to be written by an English speaker, yes. I noticed no oddities in the surrounding text:

This new indicator produces a rather different ranking of Member States (Graph 1). For example, such aid in Finland represents only 0.29% of GDP, below the EU average of 0.38%. Belgium and Luxembourg, which have relatively large amounts of aid to the railway sector, also find
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Belgium and Luxembourg makes a compound subject. Compound subjects joined by and require plural verbs (have, find).
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Why not use "which allocate relatively large amounts of aid to the railway sector"?

I'm also wondering why use "lower down the ranking when aid..."

I see "rankings" most of the time not "ranking" and "lower down" is that standard?

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Why not use "which allocate relatively large amounts of aid to the railway sector"?- Author's choice.
I see "rankings" most of the time not "ranking" and "lower down" is that standard?-- Both are standard options.
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