Kyle Truman
What does "amongst other factors" mean and how to use this phrase? In this sentence: With the decline in global trade,amomgst other factors,China experience a fall in its total imports and exports. What does "amongst other factors" mean? And how to use this phrase? Thanking U!
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'Amongst other factors' is a way to introduce or highlight one factor that influences something. It also obviously suggests that there are several factors that are relevant. A factor here is something that influences something else, or a situation. 'Amongst other factors, the lack of experience of the climbers led to them getting lost'. 'Amongst other factors, racism appears to be a dominant concern for new immigrants'.
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There are many factors (reasons) for the fall in imports and exports. One factor is the decline in global trade. This factor is somewhere in ("among/amongst") the whole group of factors. There is a mistake in the sentence. "is experiencing" or "has experienced" are possible. "experience" is wrong.
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All the three comments I made above were the answers from another native American teacher.Thanks for his help. And I also express my gratitude to the two good Samaritans following.
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amongst other factors just means "together with some other things"
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it is usually used with some negative sentences to explain something
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