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Lawn2llawn2 Posted 14 years ago
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By far....

Hi,

I have a question about the use of "by far". Is by far only used for superlatives? Is this sentence okay?

The books I'm reading for history class are more interesting by far than the ones I'm reading for science.

Thank you.

Liya
  

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Your sample sentence uses the comparative - not the superlative - though 'by far' is correctly used. ' Rover

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Your sample sentence uses the comparative - not the superlative - though 'by far' is correctly used.

In the superlative, it would be 'These books are by far the most interesting I have ever read.'

Rover
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Sorry to make you confused. Because I just knew the use of "by far" in superlative sentences, so I didn't know if it was okay to use in comparative sentence, like in my example.

Can I move "by far" to before "more interesting"? So it would be "The books I am reading for history class are by far more interesting than the ones I'm reading for science".

As for your example, is it po
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lawn2llawn2Can I move "by far" to before "more interesting"? So it would be "The books I am reading for history class are by far more interesting than the ones I'm reading for science". Yes - that's fine.
As for your example, is it possible, again, to shift "by far" back after
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