EducationAisle wrote:
warriorguy wrote:
Sorry. I wanted to highlight "also". Sun is 400 times ---- OK
Sun is also 400 times - seems awkward.
Hi! what you've done is to
ignore the non-essential (
which is 400 times larger than the Moon). Hence,
also seems
awkward to you.
The thing is that non-essential can be ignored to expose the
core of the sentence and is largely useful for determining the
subject-verb agreement. Ignoring the non-essential does not mean that the rest of the sentence would make
complete sense (after all, the non-essential was there for a
reason).
Another similar Officially
correct question:
Bluegross musician Bill Monroe, whose repertory, views on musical collaboration, and vocal style influenced generations of bluegrass artists, also inspired many musicians, including Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music differed significantly from his own.
Again, if we remove the non-essential (whose repertory, views .... bluegrass artists), the sentence that remains is:
Bluegross musician Bill Monroe also inspired many musicians, including Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music differed significantly from his own.
Again, an
also might look out of place to you, but is perfectly
valid.
Hi Ashish, I get where you are going.
Another way to look at the sentence would be: Bluegross musician Bill Monroe views on musical collaboration, and vocal style influenced generations of bluegrass artist , also inspired many musicians, including Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music differed significantly from his own.
If i look at the sentence now, then I can see that his views and vocal style did
influence generations and
also inspired many other artists. In this context,
"also" seems perfectly fine to me.