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Quant à vous, vous pouvez superviser l'équipe sans en avoir la responsabilité.

Quant à vous, vous pouvez superviser l'équipe sans en avoir la responsabilité.
As for you, you can supervise the team without having the responsibility for it.
From Lesson 345:Regarding and as for (quant à)·French

Questions & Answers about Quant à vous, vous pouvez superviser l'équipe sans en avoir la responsabilité.

Why is vous repeated at the beginning, as in Quant à vous, vous pouvez...?
The first vous belongs to the phrase quant à (as for). Because quant à is a preposition, it must be followed by a stressed pronoun (like moi, toi, lui, or vous). The second vous is the standard subject pronoun attached to the verb pouvez.
Could I use en ce qui concerne here instead of quant à?
Yes, but the grammar structure changes. You would say En ce qui vous concerne, vous pouvez.... In this alternative expression, vous acts as an object pronoun and must be placed right before the verb concerne.
What exactly does the pronoun en refer to in sans en avoir la responsabilité?
The pronoun en replaces a phrase starting with de (of/about). Here, it replaces de l'équipe. You are saying "without having the responsibility of the team," and using en is the natural way to avoid repeating the word équipe.
Why is avoir in the infinitive here, and why is en placed right in front of it?
In French, when a preposition like sans (without) introduces an action, the following verb must be in its infinitive form (avoir). Object pronouns like en are placed immediately before the verb they belong to, which gives us the strict word order sans en avoir.

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