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Anon f8r Posted 13 years ago
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There is more to selling hamburgers than meets the eyes. Is this sentence correct? More + to + gerund + noun + than + verb? How many clauses are there in this sentence? Is there any conjunction?
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The sentence is correct in the sense that it is a grammatical construct, albeit one that includes modern expressions. I would say that there is one clause. If you re-express it in a more conventional way, you get something like: Selling hamburgers involves more considerations, tasks, effort, etc.
- The sentence is correct in the sense that it is a grammatical construct, albeit one that includes modern expressions.
- I would say that there is one clause.
- If you re-express it in a more conventional way, you get something like: Selling hamburgers involves more considerations, tasks, effort, etc.
- than is apparent to someone who has not sold them.
- There whole sentence is required as there are no subdivisions that can stand indepently.
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The sentence is correct in the sense that it is a grammatical construct, albeit one that includes modern expressions.
I would say that there is one clause. If you re-express it in a more conventional way, you get something like:
Selling hamburgers involves more considerations, tasks, effort, etc. than is apparent to someone who has not sold them.
There whole sentence is required
I would say that there is one clause. If you re-express it in a more conventional way, you get something like:
Selling hamburgers involves more considerations, tasks, effort, etc. than is apparent to someone who has not sold them.
There whole sentence is required
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There is more to selling hamburgers than meets the eyes.
Is this sentence correct? Yes
How many clauses are there in this sentence? 2 (The 2 verbs are boldfaced. The first verb is in the main clause; the second is in the dependent clause.
Is there any conjunction? Yes,
Is this sentence correct? Yes
How many clauses are there in this sentence? 2 (The 2 verbs are boldfaced. The first verb is in the main clause; the second is in the dependent clause.
Is there any conjunction? Yes,
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HongkieThere is more to selling hamburgers than meets the eyesI've always thought the idiom was 'than meets the eye.'
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