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Bn77 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Sentence structure

I am having trouble understanding both the sentence structure and the meaning of the last sentence in the following paragraph. How many small clauses are there? In other words, how many verbs are there?

Japan has been troubled by resession for many years now, but what may be holding back Japan the most is an obsession with the care and feeding of its aging population. The same centralized, bureaucratically-run system designed to concentrate and funnel savings into production is now channeling them into retirement.
  

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The same centralized, bureaucratically-run system designed to concentrate and funnel savings into production is now channeling them into retirement. This is a simple sentence. A simple sentence has only one subject and predicate.

— Vsuresh

  • The same centralized, bureaucratically-run system designed to concentrate and funnel savings into production is now channeling them into retirement.
  • This is a simple sentence.
  • A simple sentence has only one subject and predicate.
  • Hence there is no question about number of clauses.
  • Finite verb- only one be verb ...
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The same centralized, bureaucratically-run system designed to concentrate and funnel savings into production is now channeling them into retirement.

This is a simple sentence. A simple sentence has only one subject and predicate. Hence there is no question about number of clauses.

Finite verb- only one be ve
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