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Inchoateknowledge

#242447 Mon, 03 Jul 06 08:39 PM

Consumer spending has decreased as a result of tax rises have begun to hit home.
Is it not wrong grammatically?
I have been reading it out loud and sounds to me bad.
How about this:
As a result of tax rises have begun to hit home, consumer spending is decreasing.

Inchoateknowledge

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Grammar Geek

#242448 Mon, 03 Jul 06 08:48 PM

As a result of tax increases that have begun to hit home, consumer spending has decreased.

Consumer spending has decreased as a result of of tax increases that have begun to hit home.

Which do you want to emphasize? The decrease in spending, or the tax increases as the culprit?

Grammar Geek

Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

Inchoateknowledge

#242451 Mon, 03 Jul 06 09:03 PM

The emphasis I wanna place on the decrease of consumer spending.
As a result of tax rises having begun to hit home, consumer spending is decreasing.

Inchoateknowledge

milky

#242454 Mon, 03 Jul 06 09:59 PM

Inchoateknowledge wrote:
The emphasis I wanna place on the decrease of consumer spending.
As a result of tax rises having begun to hit home, consumer spending is decreasing.

I'd prefer "As a result of tax rises beginning to hit home, consumer spending is decreasing."

milky

Joined on Thu, Jan 15 2004

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Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".

Grammar Geek

#242506 Tue, 04 Jul 06 05:09 AM

Grammar Geek wrote:

As a result of tax increases that have begun to hit home, consumer spending has decreased.

Consumer spending has decreased as a result of of tax increases that have begun to hit home.

I still think that tax increases, not tax rises, is the phrase you want.