English term
clause order
Control over natural resources creates for local leaders the temptation to concentrate power and…
? Thank you!
| 5 +8 | not the normal order |
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Mar 11, 2012 11:36: AllegroTrans changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Tony M, Edith Kelly, AllegroTrans
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not the normal order
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Note added at 1 day11 hrs (2012-03-12 16:02:28 GMT)
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"...creates for local leaders the temptation..." isn't grammatically incorrect, but it is convoluted and foreign-sounding. I suppose it could be used in situations where it offers more clarity than the usual word order, but I'm having a hard time imagining such a situation.
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Note added at 1 day12 hrs (2012-03-12 17:15:13 GMT)
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If the goal is to emphasize "local leaders", a more acceptable option would be to move the prepositional phrase to the beginning of the sentence:
"For local leaders, control over natural resources creates the temptation to concentrate power and..."
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Note added at 1 day12 hrs (2012-03-12 17:25:33 GMT)
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"For local leaders, control over natural resources creates the temptation to concentrate power and buy legitimacy rather than win it honestly through elections."
| To Tihomir: It wasn't me who gave it this name) |
| But is the original (the current) position of "the temptation" grammatically or stylistically incorrect? |
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