Can you accumulate verbs ? Is it idiomatic ? e.g. "it has recorded and is expected to maintain exponential growth."
Should you rather write:
It has recorded and is expected to maintain exponential growth.
Or
It has recorded exponential growth and is expected to maintain it.
and why? I know that accumulating verbs is not an usual construction.
The first looks better to me, but some people (non-natives) have told me the first version is harder to understand. I disagree with that.
Solution 1:
The problem is punctuation, "and is expected to maintain" is a parenthetical comment and these are offset by commas:
It has recorded, and is expected to maintain, exponential growth.