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Taka Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

'the ...er' construction

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10As we lose more forests=> The more forests we loose 12blockquote
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00 As more forests disappear 12blockquote
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00into the 'the ...er' construction? Is it 'The more forests disappear' without inversion? Or is the conversion basically impossible in this case? 0-
  

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0 I think no inversion (DO first and S-V then) is needed in this case as there is no DO... " (05000). 02br 02br 00Swan explains in his grammar (p.

— Antía

  • 0 I think no inversion (DO first and S-V then) is needed in this case as there is no DO...
  • " (05000).
  • 02br 02br 00Swan explains in his grammar (p.
  • 123, Practical English Usage, OUP) that the word order in both clauses in this kind of structures is this one: "the"+subject+verb.
  • He also notes that sometimes "that" is used before the first verb, as in my last example above.
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0 I think no inversion (DO first and S-V then) is needed in this case as there is no DO... I would say "The more forests disappear" is right (my teachers used to tell me: "the more you read, the more you learn", which is a similar construction, "the more"+S+V), however, I've found on the Internet some examples like this: "The more trees that die, the more trees that will die." (05000). 
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0 Hello! 02br
00No, Antia is right, there is no inversion with that structure; but it requires another clause for balance (it's a comparison), for instance: 02br
00"the more forests disappear, the more monkeys ... uh ... are homeless". 02br
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00PS: Taka, it's "lose" with one "o" 050010id1
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00 Taka, it's "lose" with one "o" 12blockquote
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00Oops! Sorry about the typo. Now I edited it. 0-
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