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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Subject + more than + Verb

Teachers now hold more advanced degrees, too. Fifty percent of today's teachers have earned a master's degree; this percentage has more than doubled since 1961.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know if after "has" "done" is implied.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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No, I would not think so. ”

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No, I would not think so.
“this percentage (being fifty) has more than doubled (from twenty-five) since 1961.”
Similar phrasing would be “this number is twice what it was in 1961.”
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park sang joonI'd like to know if after "has" "done" is implied.
No. The verb is "double."
You can double your money if you win the bet.
The stock market indices have doubled since the crash of 2008.
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars, for another kind answer from you. Emotion: smile
I think the current percentage present a little more than what doub
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park sang joonI think the current percentage present a little more than what doubled.this percentage has (developed) more than (what has) doubled since 1961.
That is not a proper paraphrase. Here is the original sentence.

Fifty percent of today's teachers have earned a master's degree; this percentage has more than doubled since 1961.

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