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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

The more is the distance in friendship, the more you move closer but, the more is the distane in love the more you move far.
  

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"far" doesn't have the right sense. The punctuation also seems a bit wonky. " Though not actually ungrammatical, the two instances of the word "is" are unnecessary and, to me, make the sentence sound rather old-fashioned.

  • "far" doesn't have the right sense.
  • The punctuation also seems a bit wonky.
  • " Though not actually ungrammatical, the two instances of the word "is" are unnecessary and, to me, make the sentence sound rather old-fashioned.
  • I would more naturally write "the greater the distance".
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"far" doesn't have the right sense. The punctuation also seems a bit wonky.

"The more (is) the distance in friendship, the more you move closer, but the more (is) the distance in love, the more you move apart."


Though not actually ungrammatical, the two instances of the word "is" are unnecessary and, to me, make the sentence sound rather old-fashi
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Thank you very much for the reply.
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Mr Wordy"The more (is) the distance in friendship, the more you move closer, but the more (is) the distance in love, the more you move apart."



I guess you're right. English is not my native language. But I think we used the paraller structure here. Hence, there is no reason to invert the subject and the verb "is"
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james do"The more the distance in friendship (is), the closer you move, but the more the distance in love (is), the more you move apart."
Inserting "is" at these points is not very natural. The usual pattern of such sentences does not include the word "is". Here are some similar examples:

"The greater the risk, the greater the potential reward."
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Thanks for your explanation.
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