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Fire1 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Are these sentence all grammatically correct?

1. Be less a racist. (racist is used as a noun here)

2. Be less of a racist.

3. She is less a friend to me.

4. She is less of a friend to me.

5. It was really more a comment than a question.

6. It was really more of a comment than a question.

I think they're all grammatically correct because I have often come across both expressions "less/more a noun" and "less/more of a noun".

  

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fire1 1. Be less a racist. Seems unusual at best.

— GPY

  • fire1 1.
  • Be less a racist.
  • Seems unusual at best.
  • fire1 2.
  • Be less of a racist.
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fire11. Be less a racist.

Seems unusual at best.

fire12. Be less of a racist.

OK.

fire13. She is less a friend to me.
4. She is less of a friend to me.

In isolation these seem lacking a comparison (e.g. "... than a ~").

fire15. It was really
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