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help me with english~ please? - Steve Kim - 11-09-2012 08:44 PM
i've read an article on Yahoo. that's below: your can read what i've read by clicking on the link below
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/teens-migrating-twitter-sometimes-privacy-170206041.html
PART A
But as Twitter has grown, so have the ways people, and communities, use it.
that's the part i need you help. (it's kind of embarrasing, considering that i know all voca included in this part.) (Twitter have the ways people and communities use it? : does it have the pattern "someting have the way sdomebody do"? or am i getting confused?)
as far as this part is concerned, i'm a little complicated, but the rest parts of the article, i've done well.
plz help, and with all useful example that you use, it would help me more.
and i want to make a point of thanking ms.Worth, with whose help, i got out of the trouble yesterday.
i really appreciate it. and thank you to all who pay even smallest attention to me guestioning.
- Bulldog Drummond - 11-09-2012 08:52 PM
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but if you're asking about the "twitter" sentence, it should read:
But as Twitter has grown, so have the ways that people and communities use it.
- Yi - 11-09-2012 08:52 PM
But as Twitter has grown, so have the ways that people and communities that use it. Hope this helps.
- Ms. Worth - 11-09-2012 08:52 PM
LOL! Hi, Steve.
The sentence is just a rearrangement of the familiar verb forms. It's not the pattern that you suggest.
The sentence says:
1) Twitter has grown.
2) The ways people and communities use it have grown too.
It is this second half that has been rearranged to say "and so (too) have (grown) the ways people and communities use it."
The verb is assumed to be next to the auxiliary, but it is not explicitly repeated because it is understood.
> My husband adores my Tuna Surprise, and so do my kids.
> The dog has learned to beg for treats, and so have the cats (learned to beg for treats.)
> As advertising has grown, so too have the doubts of consumers, and regulatory agencies, about its honesty.
(Advertising has grown, and the doubts people feel have grown as well... "... so too have (grown) the doubts....")
> Because sales have declined, so too has the commitment of upper management to this product.
( ... so too has (declined) the commitment of management....)
A common usage form for this kind of ellipsis:
> As media attention faded, so did the dedication of the protesters.
(... so (too) did (fade) the dedication of the protesters.)
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These are all variations on the English idiom "so do" (or "so have (done)")
"Do" replaces any verb, and the expression "so do" means that the verb is understood to be repeated for a second subject:
> Mary went to New York City and so did I.
> After Paul took up hockey, so did many of the other kids in the neighborhood.
> Alice has become more sophisticated as a result of her exposure to new ideas at the University, and so have the judgments and opinions she holds about literature.
Alice has become more sophisticated, and so have her opinions (become more sophisticated.)
> Sammy has a dog and so do I.
(In this case the verb "has" is not an auxiliary verb, but the verb "to possess." Sometimes this sentence is said: "Sammy has a dog and so have I," but I think that is mostly BE and not AE -- and certainly not informal American speech.)
- Soroush - 11-09-2012 08:52 PM
I'll try to expand the phrase for you, maybe it helps:
it says: twitter is growing, and along with it "the ways" people and communities use it are growing.
it means people and communities around the world have found more ways to use twitter, like using cellphones and stuff.