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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

This sentence rubs me the wrong way

Hi!
I'm reading a book on English grammar and I stumbled upon a sentence that sounds wrong to me. I'd love to know if it's indeed messed up or if I'm simply unfamiliar with this construction.

"On the other hand, just as some verbs such as 'live' can be used statively as well as dynamically, so also can some nouns and adjectives be used dynamically as well as statively."
Shouldn't it be 'some nouns and adjectives can also be used'?

Thanks in advance!

  

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It's correct. It could be more succinct, unless reversing the order of "dynamically" and "statively" is somehow important to the point.

— GPY

  • It's correct.
  • It could be more succinct, unless reversing the order of "dynamically" and "statively" is somehow important to the point.
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It's correct. It could be more succinct, unless reversing the order of "dynamically" and "statively" is somehow important to the point.

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Occasionally you'll see subject-verb inversion after 'so also' or, more frequently, 'so too'. The inversion is not required, however.

Examples found online:

So also was it with Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.
As the poor people will die, so also will the millionaires die.
James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, ... all died in this time: so too did Sir Edward Elgar, Fred
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