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Nayeem19 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Sentence structure question
0 " Though more debt than is admitted to may have been squirrelled away off the national balance sheet , our fears on the economy have proved exaggerated . " 02 br
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00 Why not , " More debt than is admitted might have been hidden from the balance sheet..." 02 br
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00 will my structure be correct ? If not , why ? 0-
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00 Why not , " More debt than is admitted might have been hidden from the balance sheet..." 02 br
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00 will my structure be correct ? If not , why ? 0-
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05 0 02 br 00 but you might need to know what the inferrence was, vis-a-vis "off the national balance sheet". 02 br 00 To me, this implies much more than your "from the balance sheet" 010id 4
- 05 0 02 br 00 but you might need to know what the inferrence was, vis-a-vis "off the national balance sheet".
- 02 br 00 To me, this implies much more than your "from the balance sheet" 010id 4
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0 your version is far more technically correct- I don't see any proper usages in the original! 05 0 02 br
00 but you might need to know what the inferrence was, vis-a-vis "off the national balance sheet". 02 br
00 To me, this implies much more than your "from the balance sheet" 010id 4
00 but you might need to know what the inferrence was, vis-a-vis "off the national balance sheet". 02 br
00 To me, this implies much more than your "from the balance sheet" 010id 4
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0 I'm rather worried about the grammatical structure of my sentence . I need to know 02 br
00 in which situation I should add a " to " after " admitted " . 0-
00 in which situation I should add a " to " after " admitted " . 0-
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0 I would offer an alternative answer here, N19. 02 br
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00 Your 2nd sentence doesn't have quite the same meaning as #1. I would change it to this: 02 br
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00 1. Though more debt than is admitted to may have been hidden from the national balance sheet, our fears on the economy have proved exaggerated. 02 br
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00 Even then, 'hidden fr
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00 Your 2nd sentence doesn't have quite the same meaning as #1. I would change it to this: 02 br
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00 1. Though more debt than is admitted to may have been hidden from the national balance sheet, our fears on the economy have proved exaggerated. 02 br
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00 Even then, 'hidden fr
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00 I think when you admit something you agree that it's true. When you admit 01 b 00 to 02 b 00 something you confess it as wrong. 02 br
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00 I need to know in which situation I should add a " to " after " admitted " 12 blockquote12 br
00 I think when you admit something you agree that it's true. When you admit 01 b 00 to 02 b 00 something you confess it as wrong. 02 br
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0 I have eaten more than i am admitted . 02 br
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00 I have eaten more than I am admitted to . 02 br
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00 Which sentence would be the correct one above ? 02 br
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00 I think , both sentences should be right because the first one states a fact and the second one states a wrong thing . 0-
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00 I have eaten more than I am admitted to . 02 br
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00 Which sentence would be the correct one above ? 02 br
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00 I think , both sentences should be right because the first one states a fact and the second one states a wrong thing . 0-
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0 I'd use "to be allowed" here. 02 br
00 As CalifJim says, "admit" has the meaning of "agree that sth is true", I don't think it fits in your examples... 02 br
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00 Or there's another possibility: 02 br
00 "I admitted to having eaten more than I am allowed to" 0-
00 As CalifJim says, "admit" has the meaning of "agree that sth is true", I don't think it fits in your examples... 02 br
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00 Or there's another possibility: 02 br
00 "I admitted to having eaten more than I am allowed to" 0-
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