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26 Aug 2022, 08:32
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The following is an excerpt from The Economist:
Real wages next year are forecast to fall more rapidly than they have in decades.
What is the structure: to be + noun + to ?
"next year" is marker of the future tens, whereas the sentence utilizes the present tense "are".
I would agree, if the sentence employed the structure: "are + going to" for the future time.
Concerning the ellipsis, what the verb "have" substitutes for?
Real wages next year are forecast to fall more rapidly than they have to fall in decade?
Could you correct me, where am I wrong?
Real wages next year are forecast to fall more rapidly than they have in decades.
What is the structure: to be + noun + to ?
"next year" is marker of the future tens, whereas the sentence utilizes the present tense "are".
I would agree, if the sentence employed the structure: "are + going to" for the future time.
Concerning the ellipsis, what the verb "have" substitutes for?
Real wages next year are forecast to fall more rapidly than they have to fall in decade?
Could you correct me, where am I wrong?
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27 Aug 2022, 00:08
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Hi BLTN,
Good questions. My thoughts:
1. We can ignore the be-form (are). All the are does is help us shift to the passive. The main structure we're interested in here is forecast + {infinitive}.
1a. Analysts forecast that real wages next year will fall more rapidly... ← Active construction
1b. Real wages next year are forecast (by analysts) to fall more rapidly... ← Passive construction
Forecast (verb) can be followed by a noun, or an infinitive, or a dependent clause (usually a that-clause).
2. The forecast is current, for something that will happen in the future. Something like "Yesterday, the met. office forecast rain for tomorrow".
3. It'd be good to get more opinions on this, but I read the sentence as:
3a. Real wages next year are forecast to fall more rapidly than they have {fallen} in decades.
I'm not sure whether others would agree, but I think this is fine.
30 Aug 2022, 04:24
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Indeed would be good to get other views on this.
As per my opinion, this would not be a great sentence on GMAT, because of the ellipsis issue.
"than they have" leaves open various possibilities of interpretation: "than they have (to fall)", "than they have (fallen)", "than they have (been falling)" etc.
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