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Tuongvan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

comparision

0Hi teachers ,02br
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00Is it ok if I say like this ?:02br
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00Their products sell very well thanks to their low prices though the quality of their products is only about two-thirds of that of ours .02br
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00Thank you in advance0-
  

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0I think it would be better to say: "Their products are very well-sold just for the low prices. In fact, the quality of their products is about two-thirds as much as that of ours"0-

  • 0I think it would be better to say: "Their products are very well-sold just for the low prices.
  • In fact, the quality of their products is about two-thirds as much as that of ours"0-
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0I think it would be better to say: "Their products are very well-sold just for the low prices. In fact, the quality of their products is about two-thirds as much as that of ours"0-
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0Sorry, there is a mistake in my sentence: 'about two-thirds as good as that of ours', not 'about two-thirds as much as that of ours'0-
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1i00Their products sell very well thanks to their low prices01b00, [COMMA] 02b00though 01b00their quality02b00 is only about two-thirds of that of ours.02i02br
00Still, I don't think you can say 01b00their 01font00quality02font02b01font0
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0I completely agree with Marius. Unless you have objective measures of quality, I don't know how you can say it's two-thirds.0-
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0Thank you Marius and Grammar Geek,02br
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00Now I know that I must say:02br
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00Their products sell very well thanks to their low prices 01b00, 02b00though 01b00their quality02b00 is only about 01b00two-thirds of02b00 01u01b00that02b00 02u00
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0Okay, setting aside whether you can really say it's 2/3...02br
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00THEIR PRODUCTS is the subject, so to later use "THEIR QUALITY" doesn't really work.02br
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00..., thought the quality of their products is about 2/3 of that of ours.0-
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0Thank you ever so much Grammar Geek0-
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0Excuse me, I still wonder if we can really say 2/3 of ...In my opinion, it couldn't be expressed like that. 02br
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00I remember reading a sentence like: He is twice as tall as me/I am.02br
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00So can we apply the same structure in this situation - I mean, can we say: ..., though the quality of their products is about 2/3 as good as that of ours?02
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0>"Their products sell very well"?02br
00People are buying their products a lot. Get a proper dictionary and check the intransitive form of "sell." The sentence is correct. 02br
05000 0240hrefhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sell

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