ellipsis
"THAN and AS can replace subjects in clauses,rather like relative pronouns.
eg 1); THEY LOST MONEY,AS WAS EXPECTED(AS IT WAS EXPECTED is incorrect
2);THE TRAIN MIGHT BE LATE,AS HAPPENED YESTERDAY and "as it happened yesterday"is incorrect"
but another grammar book says
"AS (IT )OFFTEN HAPPENS ""She has married again, as (it )offten happens." here "it"is optional" which i think is contradicts 1)
another sentence
4) "IF It carried out the programm as IT was agreed last year, things would have been better now"
HERE the "it" contradicts 2)
why?
can I omitt IT in the last sentence
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Unfortunately, you find different answers in different sources.
As a native speaker, I would slight prefer the first form, without the it, over the second, but both are fine.
You can't use it at the start of number 4, for you are using that pronoun to replace the program in you sentence,, not the person who carried it out.
Here are some ways to write it.
If she had carried out the program as we had planned, things would be better now.
Things would be better now if she had done what we planned.
It was not carried out in the way we had planned,. If it had been, things would be better now.
I like the second because it's shortest.
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