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Jacklong Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
To natural decrease was added a flow of emigration almost as long?
Could anybody analyse the title sentence's structure for me? The following is the context:
"Ireland is unique among European countries for its century-long population decline. To natural decrease was added a flow of emigration almost as long."
Any information or reponses from you will be highly appreciated! Thanks!
"Ireland is unique among European countries for its century-long population decline. To natural decrease was added a flow of emigration almost as long."
Any information or reponses from you will be highly appreciated! Thanks!
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Is this from a population/demography course? Natural increase - birth minus death emigration - migration to other places My take on this: After Ireland had a bout of natural increase, it suffered from an almost equally long duration of emigration, and that accounted for the population decline.
- Is this from a population/demography course?
- Natural increase - birth minus death emigration - migration to other places My take on this: After Ireland had a bout of natural increase, it suffered from an almost equally long duration of emigration, and that accounted for the population decline.
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Is this from a population/demography course?
Natural increase - birth minus death
emigration - migration to other places
My take on this:
After Ireland had a bout of natural increase, it suffered from an almost equally long duration of emigration, and that accounted for the population decline.
Natural increase - birth minus death
emigration - migration to other places
My take on this:
After Ireland had a bout of natural increase, it suffered from an almost equally long duration of emigration, and that accounted for the population decline.
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It may be my fault, because I didn't give the complete context which is very long. The meaning of this sentence is clear: some reasons contributed to Ireland's century-long population decline, and there is an additional reason which was emigration contributing the population decline. What I want to know is the sentence's structure. What is subject, what is object , predicate verb and so on?
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I'll take a stab at it. Mind you, I'm no grammarian.
We started off with a sentence like this:
Z adds X to Y.
Move Y to the beginning (aka. inversion), you have:
To Y Z adds X.
Make a passive voice out of the verb, the sentence will become:
To Y X is added.
Now toss in a second inversion:
To Y is added x.
Wou
We started off with a sentence like this:
Z adds X to Y.
Move Y to the beginning (aka. inversion), you have:
To Y Z adds X.
Make a passive voice out of the verb, the sentence will become:
To Y X is added.
Now toss in a second inversion:
To Y is added x.
Wou
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To natural decrease was added a flow of emigration almost as long.
This is an inversion of:
[A flow of emigration almost as long] {was added} (to natural decrease).
[subject] {verb in passive voice so there's no D.O.} (prepositional phrase)
Within the subject "of emigration" is a complement prepositional phrase to "flow", and "almost as long" is an adjectiv
This is an inversion of:
[A flow of emigration almost as long] {was added} (to natural decrease).
[subject] {verb in passive voice so there's no D.O.} (prepositional phrase)
Within the subject "of emigration" is a complement prepositional phrase to "flow", and "almost as long" is an adjectiv
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Thank you. I took a wild shot at the question mainly to bump up the thread (and hopefully catch some attention). Glad it worked.
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