overzealous with ...

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There is an error in the previous quotation. It should be as it appears here.

Re: overzealous with ...


No. Most native speakers of English would say overzealous about, but that is not why the sentence is not "OK." The end of the sentence: " . . . and the government with constructing highways while relatively inadequate investments have been put into railroad construction."--constitutes a sentence fragment because "and the government" acts as a subject, but is followed by no referential verb. "And the government" what? I don't know who wrote the sentence, but i suspect it was either not a native speaker of English; or, if it were, it was a native speaker of English who cannot construct a coherent sentence.

Doesn't the verb phrase 'are getting' cover both 'people' and 'the government'?

In China nowadays people are getting overzealous about owning private cars and the government [are getting overzealous] with constructing highways, while relatively inadequate investments have been put into railroad construction.

... people are getting overzealous [about/with X] and the government are getting overzealous [with/about X]

How about:

In China nowadays people are getting overzealous about owning private cars and the government is overzealous in constructing highways, but relatively inadequate investments have been put into railroad construction.