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Angliholic Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

I love the latter more

Piccaso is great, but compared with Da Vinci, I love the latter more.

It has nothing to do with the film "Da Vinci Code."

He is a genius.

HI,

I wrote the above. Correct me if there is anything that sounds bad.

Thanks.
  

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I think I can tell you what's wrong with this, but I can't really explain why. Angliholic (1) Piccaso is great, but compared with Da Vinci, I love the latter more. The problem with this sentence is that the subject of the last part should be the same as the subject of the first part.

— Khoff

  • I think I can tell you what's wrong with this, but I can't really explain why.
  • Angliholic (1) Piccaso is great, but compared with Da Vinci, I love the latter more.
  • The problem with this sentence is that the subject of the last part should be the same as the subject of the first part.
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  • I'm sorry that I don't have the grammar expertise to explain why it's okay to switch subjects in sentence (2) but not sentence (1).
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I think I can tell you what's wrong with this, but I can't really explain why.
Angliholic(1) Piccaso is great, but compared with Da Vinci, I love the latter more.

The problem with this sentence is that the subject of the last part should be the same as the subject of the first part. "Picasso is great, but (when Picasso is) compared with Da
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Thanks, Khoff.

How about the following? Are they good?

Piccaso is great, but I love Da Vinci better in comparison

In comparison, Piccaso is great, but I love Da Vinci better.
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