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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Hi,
I wonder how to use 'more' in this context: He needed Mary more as a friend than as a lover. (or) He needed Mary more as a friend than a lover. (which one is right - with or without the second 'as'?)
b) Instead of attacking them as only an enemy could have, he had helped him. ('could have' followed by 'had'. Is that correct?)
c) Using 'rather than', I thought a comma would be better: He wondered whether it was his friend, rather than his enemy, who had stabbed him in the back. (comma before rather and after enemy).
Or another example: his preconceptions regarding the employer, rather than the employer himself, was the actual problem.
Regards,
I wonder how to use 'more' in this context: He needed Mary more as a friend than as a lover. (or) He needed Mary more as a friend than a lover. (which one is right - with or without the second 'as'?)
b) Instead of attacking them as only an enemy could have, he had helped him. ('could have' followed by 'had'. Is that correct?)
c) Using 'rather than', I thought a comma would be better: He wondered whether it was his friend, rather than his enemy, who had stabbed him in the back. (comma before rather and after enemy).
Or another example: his preconceptions regarding the employer, rather than the employer himself, was the actual problem.
Regards,
Top answer
a) The second 'as' is unnecessary. b) It reads fine to me. c) I suggest that the use of commas depends on the length and complexity of each sentence, so that they seem unnecessary in the first, but needed in the second.
- a) The second 'as' is unnecessary.
- b) It reads fine to me.
- c) I suggest that the use of commas depends on the length and complexity of each sentence, so that they seem unnecessary in the first, but needed in the second.
- Considerations would include clarity and the conceived restrictiveness of the enclosed phrase.
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a) The second 'as' is unnecessary.
b) It reads fine to me.
c) I suggest that the use of commas depends on the length and complexity of each sentence, so that they seem unnecessary in the first, but needed in the second. Considerations would include clarity and the conceived restrictiveness of the enclosed phrase.
b) It reads fine to me.
c) I suggest that the use of commas depends on the length and complexity of each sentence, so that they seem unnecessary in the first, but needed in the second. Considerations would include clarity and the conceived restrictiveness of the enclosed phrase.
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