Goodbye to ‘By’

Posted by pakguru on November 15th, 2016 | 0 comments | dengan, grammar, Indo English, speaking, Task 2, vocabulary, writing

By paying more attention to corruption can improve the welfare of a country.

Yet another Indonesian structure that doesn’t translate directly into English!
If you really must begin with ‘by‘ then you need…

• By paying more attention to corruption, a government can improve the welfare of a country.
  By + [name of solution] + subject + verb (+ etc):
  

However, native speakers would probably just say “Goodbye to ‘By’” and go straight to the solution as the theme in the sentence:

• Paying more attention to corruption can improve the welfare of a country.