Sentence structure question

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nayeem19  #91571  Tue, 19 Apr 05 07:20 PM


" Though more debt than is admitted to may have been squirrelled away off the national balance sheet , our fears on the economy have proved exaggerated . "

Why not , " More debt than is admitted might have been hidden from the balance sheet..."

will my structure be correct ? If not , why ?

  
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lookfar  #91584  Tue, 19 Apr 05 08:34 PM
your version is far more technically correct- I don't see any proper usages in the original!Stick out tongue [:P]
but you might need to know what the inferrence was, vis-a-vis "off the national balance sheet".
To me, this implies much more than your "from the balance sheet"
  
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nayeem19  #91590  Tue, 19 Apr 05 09:12 PM
I'm rather worried about the grammatical structure of my sentence . I need to know
in which situation I should add a " to " after " admitted " .
  
MrPedantic  #91619  Wed, 20 Apr 05 12:08 AM
I would offer an alternative answer here, N19.

Your 2nd sentence doesn't have quite the same meaning as #1. I would change it to this:

1. Though more debt than is admitted to may have been hidden from the national balance sheet, our fears on the economy have proved exaggerated.

Even then, 'hidden from' isn't quite the same as 'squirrelled away off': the latter has a sense of 'hidden from the balance sheet and dispersed in one or more places'. It gives a more active impression.

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CalifJim  #91641  Wed, 20 Apr 05 02:28 AM
I need to know in which situation I should add a " to " after " admitted "

I think when you admit something you agree that it's true. When you admit to something you confess it as wrong.

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nayeem19  #91758  Wed, 20 Apr 05 10:06 AM


I have eaten more than i am admitted .

I have eaten more than I am admitted to .

Which sentence would be the correct one above ?

I think , both sentences should be right because the first one states a fact and the second one states a wrong thing .
  
pieanne  #91768  Wed, 20 Apr 05 10:43 AM
I'd use "to be allowed" here.
As CalifJim says, "admit" has the meaning of "agree that sth is true", I don't think it fits in your examples...

Or there's another possibility:
"I admitted to having eaten more than I am allowed to"
  
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lookfar  #92031  Thu, 21 Apr 05 12:29 AM
Mister didactic sez, don't end sentences with infinickys
  
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