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Parading Posted 16 years ago
In the above sentence, I couldn't understand why in the second part of the sentence follwing the punctuation mark ;, the word 'is' are absent at the place just beside 'nature.' Comparing to the first of the sentence, I think there should be 'is' because it is modified from the sentence "If his nature is more unique, ..." as in the first part "If a person is more commonplace, ..." Why is that there is 'is' in the first part, but not exist in the second part? I am an English teacher to understand even if you use some professional and linguistic expressions, so please tell me what you think in a grammar sense. I would appreciate your answers.
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Hello~
I am an EFL learner as an English teacher.
Studying English today, I found an sentence "The more common place a person is, the more will his language bear the stamp of the community in which he lives; the more unique his nature, the more peculiarly his own will be the colouring of his language. ..."
In the above sentence, I couldn't understand why in the second part of the sentence follwing the punctuation mark ;, the word 'is' are absent at the place just beside 'nature.' Comparing to the first of the sentence, I think there should be 'is' because it is modified from the sentence "If his nature is more unique, ..." as in the first part "If a person is more commonplace, ..." Why is that there is 'is' in the first part, but not exist in the second part? I am an English teacher to understand even if you use some professional and linguistic expressions, so please tell me what you think in a grammar sense. I would appreciate your answers.
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In this pattern, the word "is" (or, more generally, the appropriate form of the verb "be") is optional. It could have been omitted from the first part too, but the author has chosen, fairly arbitrarily, to use "is" in the first part but not the second.
- In this pattern, the word "is" (or, more generally, the appropriate form of the verb "be") is optional.
- It could have been omitted from the first part too, but the author has chosen, fairly arbitrarily, to use "is" in the first part but not the second.
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In this pattern, the word "is" (or, more generally, the appropriate form of the verb "be") is optional. It could have been omitted from the first part too, but the author has chosen, fairly arbitrarily, to use "is" in the first part but not the second.
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