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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

BY COMARISON TO/ WITH

Could you help me with these please?

1 Season 2 of the show is excellent, but by comparison with season 1, it can only dispoint the viewer.
2 This album is good, but by comparison to her older albums, isn't so great.

3 Its night now/its nighttime now, I can start drinking.

WHILE with the present tense? is the following correct?

1 While I'm looking for a movie the other one will load.

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These are okay by me. "Disappoint" is misspelled. #2 is grammatical, but it doesn't read well.

— Avangi

  • These are okay by me.
  • "Disappoint" is misspelled.
  • #2 is grammatical, but it doesn't read well.
  • " ??
  • To my ear, it's the second choice, but I suspect you intend the first.
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These are okay by me.

"Disappoint" is misspelled.

#2 is grammatical, but it doesn't read well.
I'd repeat the subject (with a pronoun), making the last phrase a clause: "it isn't so great."
There's confusion about your intention with the adverb "so."
Do you mean to use it like "as," in a comparison, "not as great as";
or is it like the shaggy dog story, "He's
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Regarding "comparison with/to," I don't think your examples point to a difference in choice. That is, I believe you may swap them. There are other more useful threads on this subject which you might check out. There are cases where one is preferable over the other.
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Thank you Avangi

Are "by comparison" and "by contrast" interchangeable in my first 2 sentence. So basically the the first 2 are correct?

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Yes. This is true.
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Which would you go with, BY CONTRAST or BY COMPARISON?

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They're interchangeable in this case, in my opinion.
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