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Sandy Ho Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Trail increases

Hi,

However, this growth came at the expense of heavy discounting and did trail increases in supply.

What‘s trail increases ,how do I conprehand the 'trail' here?

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Hi, However, this growth came at the expense of heavy discounting and did trail increases in supply. What‘s trail increases ,how do I conprehand the 'trail' here? Parse the sentence this way.

— Clive

  • Hi, However, this growth came at the expense of heavy discounting and did trail increases in supply.
  • What‘s trail increases ,how do I conprehand the 'trail' here?
  • Parse the sentence this way.
  • However, ( this growth came at the expense of heavy discounting ) and ( this growth did trail increases in supply .
  • ) The verb 'trail' means 'follow behind'.
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Hi,

However, this growth came at the expense of heavy discounting and did trail increases in supply.

What‘s trail increases ,how do I conprehand the 'trail' here?

Parse the sentence this way.

However, (
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thank you ,I take the "trail' as "slowdown" ,is it appropriate?
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Sorry , think it again, 'lag behind' is more accurate.
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Hi,

Yes, 'lag behind' is good.

Clive
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In sports, such as American football, if team X is trailing by two touchdowns, it means, it's losing by 14 points.
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