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9 Dec 2022
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The sentence: "The bigger the number of softwares you need to install, the harder it will be to manage."
Dose it probably missing a linking-verb (for instance, "is") after "to install"?
The sentence: "The bigger the number of softwares you need to install, the harder it will be to manage."
Dose it probably missing a linking-verb (for instance, "is") after "to install"?
Dose it probably missing a linking-verb (for instance, "is") after "to install"?
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- English (US)
You are very close and on the right track :)
But there is one more issue:
"Software" is an uncountable noun, so "softwares" is incorrect.
The best way to say this would be "The more software you need to install, the harder it will be to manage."
- English (US)
The "to install" part is correct.
The wrong part is actually at the beginning.
Software is actually an uncountable noun.
"The more software you need to install, the harder it will be to manage."
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