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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The more~, The more & bring something to bear~

The problem is to learn to read these scientific records accurately. There are pitfalls in any such endeavor. The more independent approaches that can be brought to bear on a given problem, the greater are the chances that the pitfalls will be overcome and a meaningful solution achieved.

1) Dose the verb 'bring' involve a to-infinitive as an objective complement as the verbs like 'get', 'ask', or 'command'?
2) Is 'are' omitted after 'problem'?

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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1) I think so. However, "bring to bear" is a set expression, so one doesn't literally think of "bringing" anything or of anything "bearing". 2) No.

— GPY

  • 1) I think so.
  • However, "bring to bear" is a set expression, so one doesn't literally think of "bringing" anything or of anything "bearing".
  • 2) No.
  • "are" would be ungrammatical there.
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1) I think so. However, "bring to bear" is a set expression, so one doesn't literally think of "bringing" anything or of anything "bearing".

2) No. "are" would be ungrammatical there.
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Thank you, GPY, very much for your answer.
I always appreciate your continuing support.

1) Is there any usage that the verb 'bring' takes objective complement when it is not used as a set expression?
2) How about this?
: The more (are) independent approaches that can be brought to bear on a given problem, the greater are the chances
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1) I'm not sure. I am not clear enough about exactly what should be counted as an object complement.

2) No, that is not correct. The basic structure is "The more X that can be Y, the greater ...". There is no place for an additional "are". A simpler analogous example would be "The more deaths that can be prevented, the better...".
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Thank you, GPY, for your continuing support.

1) I'm not sure. I am not clear enough about exactly what should be counted as an object complement.
I could just explain to you a general outline by the following diagram.
I will only say the structure "Subject + Verb + Object + to-infinitive"

In the following sentences, the verbs need a object and a
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park sang joon have made another mistake; I would have inserted '(are)' between 'independent' and 'approaches'.
The more independent are approaches that can be brought to bear on a given problem, the greater are the chances that the pitfalls will be overcome and a meaningful solution achieved.

That is possible, but it changes the meaning
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Thank you, fivejedjon, for your concrete answer.

In the group of words that I have underlined, there is no main-clause verb for 'approaches' to be the subject of.
I was wondering how this is possible.
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fivejedjonThe more independent are approaches that can be brought to bear on a given problem, the greater are the chances that the pitfalls will be overcome and a meaningful solution achieved.That is possible, but it changes the meaning of the sentence.
I'm struggling a bit to see how that sentence works. Do you intend it to mean the same as "The more independ
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park sang joonI could just explain to you a general outline by the following diagram.I will only say the structure "Subject + Verb + Object + to-infinitive"
There are at least two general ways in which this pattern can be used with the verb "bring". Examples:

"I brought it to annoy you", meaning "I brought it in order to annoy you".
"I brought the
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The more independent are approaches that can be brought to bear on a given problem, the greater are the chances that the pitfalls will be overcome and a meaningful solution achieved.
The more independent approaches that can be brought to bear on a given problem, the greater are the chances that the pitfalls will be overcome and a meaningful solution achieved.
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Thank you, GPY, for your answer. Emotion: smile

I wouldn't call either of these examples of object complements though.
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