The usage of "WERE" right after as .... as structure
In a study reported in the Harvard Medical School Mental Health Bulletin, adults who had been raised with harsh physical discipline were found to be almost three times as likely to develop depression or alcoholism as WERE THOSE whose parents had brought them up with gentler rules.
I do not get why the writer put" WERE" before "THOSE" in this sentence. If I were the writer, I would make the sentence without putting "were" . I mean "three times as likely to develop depression or alcoholism as THOSE whose parents had brought them up with gentler rules."
At first, I thought there was an inversion but it is not. if not, what is it ?
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Mike123 if not, what is it ? It is just an option: the auxiliary may optionally be repeated or omitted. In longer or more complex sentences, good writers keep the auxiliary for clarity's sake.
- Mike123 if not, what is it ?
- It is just an option: the auxiliary may optionally be repeated or omitted.
- In longer or more complex sentences, good writers keep the auxiliary for clarity's sake.
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Mike123 if not, what is it ?
It is just an option: the auxiliary may optionally be repeated or omitted. In longer or more complex sentences, good writers keep the auxiliary for clarity's sake.
0Mike123I thought there was an inversion but it is not
How do you figure that?
Mike123 were found to be almost three times as likely to develop depression or alcoholism as WERE THOSE whose parents had brought them up with gentler rules.
It's an inversion of
were found to be almost three times as likely to deve
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