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Chan-Seung Lee
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: equal |
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| The value of the cleaning, cooking, shopping, child care, home maintenance, money management, errands, entertaining, and other services homemakers perform has been estimated at equal to roughly one-fourth of the gross national product. |
I think that the bold part of the above is not correct grammatically and it should be corrected like 'has been estimated at the equal of roughly one-fourth of the gross national product.'.
I wonder I'm right. Please let me know if I'm right or wrong and why.
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Eric Thompson
Joined: 25 Nov 2006
Posts: 148
Location: Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines
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Dear Chan-Seung, The problem that I see with both your quote and your revision is the use of 'at' after 'estimated'. I normally hear 'to be' after 'estimated'. Beyond that, the quote is more correct than your revision, sorry. Here's how I would say it: 'has been estimated to be equal to roughly one-fourth of the gross national product'.--Eric  |
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