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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Bigger than used to be
Is it natural to say :
The room is bigger than it used to be./The room is bigger than it was.
Is everything after “bigger” redundant?
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anonymous Is everything after “bigger” redundant? Not necessarily. That's a function of context.
- anonymous Is everything after “bigger” redundant?
- Not necessarily.
- That's a function of context.
- You'd say 'than it used to be' to disambiguate it from 'than the adjoining room', for example, if that was part of the context.
- CJ
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anonymousIs everything after “bigger” redundant?
Not necessarily. That's a function of context. You'd say 'than it used to be' to disambiguate it from 'than the adjoining room', for example, if that was part of the context.
CJ
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