as.....as inversion

[aysaa]

Hi,

-Crouse wasn't used as badly as the other members of the crew were.

Can we invert the sentence above just as I have written as the following sentence?

-Crouse wasn't used as badly as were the other members of the crew.

Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes. In both sentences you could omit "were" and they would be OK.