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Navitasan Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Less immediate and...

1) Like ''The Sweet Hereafter,'' a more meditative and elegant but less immediate, volcanic film, Affliction finds the deeper meaning in an all too believable tragedy.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affliction_(film)

'The Sweet Hereafter' and 'Affliction' are movies.

Shouldn't it be '... less immediate AND volcanic film'?

I suppose it is 'less immediate' and 'less volcanic'. If one took out the comma the sentence would imply that both films were 'volcanic' but 'The Sweet Hereafter' was 'less immediate'. With the comma the sentence seems a bit off to me. The comma is doing the work of 'and' here, but I am not sure the whole thing works.
Does it?
Gratefully,
Navi.
  

Top answer

As written, it doesn't work. Say eg Like ''The Sweet Hereafter,'' a more meditative and elegant but less immediate and volcanic film, Affliction . .

— Clive

  • As written, it doesn't work.
  • Say eg Like ''The Sweet Hereafter,'' a more meditative and elegant but less immediate and volcanic film, Affliction .
  • .
  • ".
  • Or perhaps the writer means eg Like ''The Sweet Hereafter,'' a more meditative and elegant but less immediately volcanic film, Affliction ..
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As written, it doesn't work.
Say eg Like ''The Sweet Hereafter,'' a more meditative and elegant but less immediate and volcanic film, Affliction . .. . ".

Or perhaps the writer means eg Like ''The Sweet Hereafter,'' a more meditative and elegant but less immediately volcanic film, Affliction .
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