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Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: In the United States, while the number of foreign-born residents and t

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Vordhosbn wrote:

I got rid of E, because I was under the impression that comma + "ed"s modify the noun right beforethem?


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To clarify, in this case, "compared with 20 percent in 2000" modifies the main noun of the phrase "35 percent of the population " - "35 percent"; if the noun immediately before the comma is part of a prepositional phrase, the modifier acts on the noun that the prepositional phrase modifies.

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