Structure

[mehdihas]

Hi everbody,
What is the structure of the following underlined part? And why this type of structure is used?
"Just as much of a problem is insudtrial waste."
thanks.

[Coolfootluke]

I am not a teacher.

The sentence is inverted from "Industrial waste is just as much of a problem." The subject can be construed to be "industrial waste", with "problem" as the predicate nominative even in the inverted form. You might do that to introduce a new problem, at the start of a paragraph, for instance, because in English the most important word comes last.

[Raymott]

Hi everbody,
What is the structure of the following underlined part? And why this type of structure is used?
"Just as much of a problem is insudtrial waste."
thanks.

The missing clue, and part of the meaning, is outside the sentence.
It might read, "Air pollution is a huge problem. Just as much of a problem is industrial waste." Industrial waste is as much of a problem as air pollution. It's a comparative.