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Omar Ahmed Posted 4 years ago
Grammar
A perplexing question
The force of our enemies was .................. our force.
a. three times more than b. more than three times
I go for "a". Am I right?
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Omar Ahmed The force of our enemies was .................. our force. a.
- Omar Ahmed The force of our enemies was ..................
- our force.
- a.
- three times more than b.
- more than three times I go for "a".
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Omar AhmedThe force of our enemies was .................. our force.
a. three times more than b. more than three times
I go for "a". Am I right?
No. It's b.
Actually, both are used, but the grammatical pattern shown in b is used about ten times as often as the pattern in a. (Google Ngram
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