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PYVS Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

I have difficulties in understanding the following sentence, please help me.Much thanks.

The sentence is :*Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity, any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others.* In the sentence, what is the relation between the two clauses? Should there be a conjunction between the two clauses? And i am quite confused with the latter half of the sentence, i do not know the meaning of the latter, and what is the meaning of "by being so many feet or miles removed from others"? and if i understand the latter like this, one can cease to be socially influenced if they are far away from others, i think the meaning of the latter is not consistent with that of the former.
  

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*Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others. -- It is a comparison. -- No.

— Mister Micawber

  • *Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others.
  • -- It is a comparison.
  • -- No.
  • -- = being a certain physical distance from other people.
  • -- No, the point is the opposite: physical distance does not affect influence.
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*Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others.

In the sentence, what is the relation between the two clauses?-- It is a comparison.

Should there be a conjunction between the two clauses?-- No.

And i am quite confused with the latter ha
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