想请教各位先进, Among the study participants over the age of 40, the sedentary were almost twice as likely to die during the course of the study than were participants who were highly active. 以上这个句子中, 第三行 participants 前面的 were 可以改为 those 吗? 谢谢!
原句:the sedentary were almost as likely to dieduring the course of the study than theparticipants who were highly active were因为副词子句的主词the participants带有修饰语whowere highly active，所以会将子句里的动词were倒装移到the participants之前你所谓的改成those只是将the participants改成thoseparticipants，然后将子句的动词were做省略所以并不是those和were只能二择一were在这里会选择倒装是因为带有修饰语的主词太长了