Thai village crafts, as with other cultures, have developed through the principle that form follows function and incorporate readily available materials fashioned using traditional skills.
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Hanxiong Jiang
Thai village crafts, as with other cultures, have developed through the principle
(that form follows function and incorporate readily available materials fashioned
using traditional skills.)
Is the sentence in bracket a modifier for 'the principle'? If so, verbs in the sentence should be 'forms' and 'incorporates'. But they are not!
Obviously, my understanding is wrong, can anyone explain the structure of this sentence to me?
The phrase "as with" means "as is the case with" and is use to make comparisons and indicate that two nouns.
In this sentence, we want to compare Thai village crafts with the village crafts of other cultures. (A) is incorrect because the use of "as with" makes the comparison directly between Thai village crafts and other cultures (not the village crafts of those cultures).
Hi Snigdha! Happy to help :) "Did" in this context is used to replace an antecedent verb. This means that the verb being replaced must come before "did." However, there is no verb in the phrase "Thai village crafts." For that reason, (B) isn't correct. Hope this helps :)
thanks for your explanation.
from your explanation, I got the idea that "as with" can be used as a correct answer when comparison, right?
would you please give me some examples?
thanks a lot
have a nice day
>_~
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