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Is this phrase right

by pink_08 » Wed May 27, 2009 10:02 pm
Unlike its fellow baltic nations, Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia grew at an astonishing rate economically in the late 1900s, and at the end of the decade earned itself a place on the fast track to join the union.


In the underlined part, this sentence clearly has a pronoun error ( itself is ambiguous referring to decade when it has to be Estonia ).

Is the phrase astonishing rate economically right ?


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by dumb.doofus » Wed May 27, 2009 10:13 pm
Seems right to me.. economically is an adverb modifying grew.. astonishing is an adjective modifying rate..
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by California4jx » Thu May 28, 2009 12:38 pm
seems right to me. Estonia is the subject, modified by unlike ... -- also, Estonia comes at the right place and the comparison is also right.
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