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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

no more than

Please kindly correct the following two sentences where necessary:

He has to reduce the price to no more than 200 dollars.

He has to postphone the meeting to no earlier than 9th August.

undoutedly the italisized to is a proposition which calls for a noun or pronoun and etc. but does "no more/earlier than" fit?
  

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Your sentences are fine (but postpone is spelled so). The 'to' s are indeed prepositions. More and earlier are pronouns (acting as nouns) representing more and earlier (date) .

— Mister Micawber

  • Your sentences are fine (but postpone is spelled so).
  • The 'to' s are indeed prepositions.
  • More and earlier are pronouns (acting as nouns) representing more and earlier (date) .
  • Than is a preposition of comparison.
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Your sentences are fine (but postpone is spelled so). The 'to' s are indeed prepositions.

More and earlier are pronouns (acting as nouns) representing more
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Also, check spelling on:

'undoubtedly'

'italicized'

plus--

'etc.' does not take an 'and' (the abbreviation stands for the Latin et cetera, which translates as, 'and so forth'.
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"No more than 200 dollars" is a noun phrase therefore preposition "to" can be used.

ex. No more than 200 dollars was found when the cops entered the apartment.

"No earlier than August 9th" can also be a noun phrase too.

ex. No earlier than August 9th is the deadline the coach told us to get our acts together or else.
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