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Wesholic Posted 13 years ago
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What does this sentence mean?
The 1988 Housing Act effectively abandoned rent control, apart from various rather complex measures of protection for tenants with agreements dating from earlier rent control regimes. In the last section the attractiveness of housing as an investment was discussed. Together with the lightening of controls over the activities private landlords that attraction seems to have contributed to the slight recent growth of this sector.
What I want to know is the meaning of the underlined sentence.
Is this sentence a perfect sentence? If it is, what is the main verb of the sentence?
Or is it just some kind of noun clause?
What I want to know is the meaning of the underlined sentence.
Is this sentence a perfect sentence? If it is, what is the main verb of the sentence?
Or is it just some kind of noun clause?
Top answer
There is something wrong with that sentence. The most likely correction is to add the word "of" after "activities". A comma after "landlords" would also make the sentence somewhat easier to read: Together with the lightening of controls over the activities of private landlords, that attraction seems to have contributed to the slight recent growth of this sector.
- There is something wrong with that sentence.
- The most likely correction is to add the word "of" after "activities".
- A comma after "landlords" would also make the sentence somewhat easier to read: Together with the lightening of controls over the activities of private landlords, that attraction seems to have contributed to the slight recent growth of this sector.
- The main verb is "(seems to have) contributed".
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There is something wrong with that sentence. The most likely correction is to add the word "of" after "activities". A comma after "landlords" would also make the sentence somewhat easier to read:
Together with the lightening of controls over the activities of private landlords, that attraction seems to have contributed to the slight recent growth of this sector.
The main verb is
Together with the lightening of controls over the activities of private landlords, that attraction seems to have contributed to the slight recent growth of this sector.
The main verb is
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