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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Comparative clause of equality
The hotter it gets the more water plants need to survive.
I see the sentence above as a comparative clause of equality. I understand it as The x hotter it gets the x more water plants need to survive.
Am I correct?
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anonymous I see the sentence above as a comparative clause of equality. Maybe your textbook calls it that. The terms I've seen to describe that structure are double comparative, parallel comparative, and correlative comparative.
- anonymous I see the sentence above as a comparative clause of equality.
- Maybe your textbook calls it that.
- The terms I've seen to describe that structure are double comparative, parallel comparative, and correlative comparative.
- In any case, yes, that's what it is.
- anonymous The x hotter it gets the x more water plants need to survive.
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anonymousI see the sentence above as a comparative clause of equality.
Maybe your textbook calls it that. The terms I've seen to describe that structure are double comparative, parallel comparative, and correlative comparative.
In any case, yes, that's what it is.
anonymousThe x hotter it gets the x more wate
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