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I'm confused with the arrangement of the two objects in the sentence below.
''In this chapter we compress into summary form the main issues discussed so far."
I would normally just write as 'compress something into something', and I've never seen such use before.
Is there any rule for this?
1 nov. 2017 09:55
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The preposition 'into' allows for this flexibility in word order, but you're right because the sentence can rewritten in the more common form you're familiar with:
In this chapter we compress the major issues we've discussed so far into summary form.
I imagine the author chose this less common, but still legitimate, word order for stylistic reasons. The meaning doesn't change though.
1 november 2017
Will you try this link? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/compress?fallbackFrom=british-grammar
Your answer is in the second entry.
1 november 2017
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