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Here is the sentence: "Why is a conjugated system bigger, the smaller the atomic electron transitions?" I mean that when a conjugated system gets bigger, the atomic electron transitions get smaller, and I want to know why is that. Thank you :)

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  • While writing advice may be off topic, the structural and semantic errors are likely relevant on this site. – Kris Nov 23 '18 at 09:49
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    You've already essentially provided your own syntax. If you combine your two sentences and add two words, here is what you wrote: Why is it that when a conjugated system gets bigger, the atomic electron transitions get smaller? – Jason Bassford Nov 23 '18 at 10:05

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"Why is a conjugated system bigger, the smaller the atomic electron transitions?"

In the usual structure of "comparative correlative" type of parallelism it would be:

Why is it that the bigger the conjugated system, the smaller the atomic electron transitions?

Note the inversion.

HTH.

See also:
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