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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
more like
The resulting X-ray looks more like the cross section of a bridge truss than anything associated with a living organism.
Is that sentence ok ?
What the word " more " function here ? adverb ? determiner ? pronoun ?
Why the phrase " like the cross section of a bridge truss " can follow the word " more " I thought it is usally followed by " adverb or adjective such as more terrible, more anxiety " ?
Is that sentence ok ?
What the word " more " function here ? adverb ? determiner ? pronoun ?
Why the phrase " like the cross section of a bridge truss " can follow the word " more " I thought it is usally followed by " adverb or adjective such as more terrible, more anxiety " ?
Top answer
More is an adverb. Like is an unusual word which acts like a comparative adverb here: He looks most/least like his father . Like also takes the intensifier, very: He looks very like Marlon Brando .
- More is an adverb.
- Like is an unusual word which acts like a comparative adverb here: He looks most/least like his father .
- Like also takes the intensifier, very: He looks very like Marlon Brando .
- Let's call like the cross section of a bridge truss a prepositional phrase acting as an adverbial.
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More is an adverb. Like is an unusual word which acts like a comparative adverb here: He looks most/least like his father. Like also takes the intensifier, very: He looks very like Marlon Brando.
Let's call like the cross section of a bridge truss a prepositional phrase acting as an adverbial.
Let's call like the cross section of a bridge truss a prepositional phrase acting as an adverbial.
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I guess the logic or sense of why "more" and "like" go together here can also be made clearer if we remember that the word "like" is being used to mean "similar to"
Therefore, we could restate the sentence this way:
The resulting X-ray looks more similar to the cross section of a bridge truss than anything associated with a living organism.
Yes, it seems the role
Therefore, we could restate the sentence this way:
The resulting X-ray looks more similar to the cross section of a bridge truss than anything associated with a living organism.
Yes, it seems the role
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he compares
an X-ray
with
the cross section of a bridge truss
and
something related to a living organism
and finds it more similar with the first
The sentence is OK.
an X-ray
with
the cross section of a bridge truss
and
something related to a living organism
and finds it more similar with the first
The sentence is OK.
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