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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The fronted complement
Under combined federal and local pressure, an estimated seventy thousand Mexicans left Los Angeles in 1931 alone.
Underlying this deportation drive was not only concern about welfare costs but prejudice.
["The Los Angeles Barrio" in Reading for Results by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know if "underlying" is fronted from before "was."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Underlying this deportation drive was not only concern about welfare costs but prejudice.
["The Los Angeles Barrio" in Reading for Results by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know if "underlying" is fronted from before "was."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
drive') is fronted.
- drive') is fronted.
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "underlying" is fronted from before "was."The whole adverbial ('underlying...drive') is fronted.
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for yet yet another So very kind answer from you. 
If I may, I'd like to ask you to rephrase the senten
If I may, I'd like to ask you to rephrase the senten
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park sang joonI'd like to ask you to rephrase the sentence as that in the original word order.There is no 'original word order'. You must get over this illusion if you are to make progress in English. The sentence is fine, common and original as it is; no one converted it from any other order.
If you wish to re-cast the sentence, then just shuffle t
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