Typo or My English Incompetency
Dear folks,
I have difficulty making sense of the words in red below.
"Every credible cost analysis of these proposals shows that
consumers will pay more for energy, and that employment,
GDP and disposable household income will decline relative
to what they would be absent the restrictions."
[source: 10 Cool Global Warming Policies (June 2009) by Iain Murray and H. Sterling Burnett ]
There seems to be a grammatical error, but if the expression
has no problem, how should it be syntactically break down ?
Thank you very much.
Ray
Top answer
Ray Virgin There seems to be a grammatical error No, but it not a common phrasing. and that employment, GDP and disposable household income will decline relative to what they would be if the restrictions were absent. "
- Ray Virgin There seems to be a grammatical error No, but it not a common phrasing.
- and that employment, GDP and disposable household income will decline relative to what they would be if the restrictions were absent.
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Ray VirginThere seems to be a grammatical error
No, but it not a common phrasing. Here is a paraphrase:
"...and that employment, GDP and disposable household income will decline relative to what they would be if the restrictions were absent."
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