masterding
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Quote from VOA:
"When you think of the American suburbs, what comes to mind?
Street after street of similar houses? Shopping malls and big yards and white picket fences?
All valid images, but you're forgetting something that is - or was - a fixture of suburbia: young children, romping on quiet streets and in playgrounds.
According to 2010 Census data, the population of children has dropped in 95 percent of America's counties, compared with a decade earlier.
While the nation's population grew almost 10 percent in that time, the number of households with children under 18 remained constant, at about 38 million.
Five million more U.S. households have dogs than have children.
...
In some areas of the country, schools have closed from declining enrollments, some child-oriented businesses are closing, and housing needs are shifting, the magazine reported.
In Levittown, Pennsylvania, a planned community that became the stereotype of suburban sprawl, Jim White recalls that everybody on his street had kids. He told the USA Today newspaper, "At no time could you walk out and not have someone to play with.""
My questions:
1.Does it mean the numbers of households only have dogs(not have children) are five million more than that of households only have children(not have dogs)?
2.why are housing needs shifting ,just because the population of children has dropped ?
3.what are the meanings of "planned community " and "suburban sprawl"?
4.I think the sentence has the same meaning as " You could never walk out and not have someone to play with."
My question is there is no modal verb or Auxiliary verb before not, is it grammatically correct?
Thanks.
"When you think of the American suburbs, what comes to mind?
Street after street of similar houses? Shopping malls and big yards and white picket fences?
All valid images, but you're forgetting something that is - or was - a fixture of suburbia: young children, romping on quiet streets and in playgrounds.
According to 2010 Census data, the population of children has dropped in 95 percent of America's counties, compared with a decade earlier.
While the nation's population grew almost 10 percent in that time, the number of households with children under 18 remained constant, at about 38 million.
Five million more U.S. households have dogs than have children.
...
In some areas of the country, schools have closed from declining enrollments, some child-oriented businesses are closing, and housing needs are shifting, the magazine reported.
In Levittown, Pennsylvania, a planned community that became the stereotype of suburban sprawl, Jim White recalls that everybody on his street had kids. He told the USA Today newspaper, "At no time could you walk out and not have someone to play with.""
My questions:
1.Does it mean the numbers of households only have dogs(not have children) are five million more than that of households only have children(not have dogs)?
2.why are housing needs shifting ,just because the population of children has dropped ?
3.what are the meanings of "planned community " and "suburban sprawl"?
4.I think the sentence has the same meaning as " You could never walk out and not have someone to play with."
My question is there is no modal verb or Auxiliary verb before not, is it grammatically correct?
Thanks.