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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

More smart

Could you confirm whether the following sentence is right?

There are many more smart young students who are studying hard for their futures despite the underprivileged circumstances.

How about the following one?

There are many smarter young students who are studying hard for their futures despite the underprivileged circumstances.


  

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e. it means many more in comparison to something else that is inferred from the context.

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  • it means many more in comparison to something else that is inferred from the context.
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They are both possible, but the first one would be parsed as "many more / smart young students" not "many / more smart young students", i.e. it means many more in comparison to something else that is inferred from the context.
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Then, does the first one mean "There are even more smart young students who are studying hard for their futures despite the underprivileged circumstances"?
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(Sorry, I made a mistake. I corrected that. Please ignore the above one and answer the following one)

Then, does the first one mean "There are even more students who are smart, young, and studying hard for their futures despite the underprivileged circumstances"?
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lucas21cThen, does the first one mean "There are even more students who are smart, young, and studying hard for their futures despite the underprivileged circumstances"?
It will depend somewhat on the context, but "even" will not generally have exactly the same effect as "many".
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Could you tell me which one is right between (A) and (B) in the following sentence?

There were [ (A) many more / (B) much more ] people than chairs.
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lucas21cThere were [ (A) many more / (B) much more ] people than chairs.
That should be "many more". "much more" is used for uncountable things: "much more cheese", "much more money".
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If B is wrong, does "There were [even/far/a lot/still] more people than chairs" also sound awkward?
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lucas21cIf B is wrong, does "There were [even/far/a lot/still] more people than chairs" also sound awkward?
All are possible, though the meanings aren't necessarily the same.
There were even more people than chairs suggests that there were many chairs, perhaps a surprisingly large number of chairs, but nevertheless there were more people than
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Then, how about "I need much more chairs"? I think it is wrong and should be corrected to "I need many more chairs" or "I need [a lot/even/far/still] more chairs though the former and the latter are different from each other. Am I right?
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Yes and yes, though you can't have 'the former' and 'the letter' when you have four items.
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