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Cho7712 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
not less than
ex. Caesar was not less ruthless than Attila.
At first glimpe, I thought the sentence implies that Caesar could be interpreted as being more ruthless than Attila.
But, quoting Quirk, the book wrote that the sentence allows the possibility that Attila was more ruthless. (Personally, I'm convinced that this was misprinted.) What do you think about it?
At first glimpe, I thought the sentence implies that Caesar could be interpreted as being more ruthless than Attila.
But, quoting Quirk, the book wrote that the sentence allows the possibility that Attila was more ruthless. (Personally, I'm convinced that this was misprinted.) What do you think about it?
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What page of Quirk? I agree that it seems that Attila could not be more ruthless, though they could be equally ruthless.
- What page of Quirk?
- I agree that it seems that Attila could not be more ruthless, though they could be equally ruthless.
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What page of Quirk?
I agree that it seems that Attila could not be more ruthless, though they could be equally ruthless.
I agree that it seems that Attila could not be more ruthless, though they could be equally ruthless.
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I wish I brought the book with me home. I left it in my studyroom.
But I can recall that the pages deal with 'no more than' construction and the examples in question are positioned in the bottom of the right-hand page.
But I can recall that the pages deal with 'no more than' construction and the examples in question are positioned in the bottom of the right-hand page.
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The exact page is 1137.
Quoting verbatim,
Quoting verbatim,
There are parallels between a positive as....as sentence and negative more...than and less...than sentences:
Caesar was as ruthless as Attila. [1]
Attila was not more ruthless than Caesar. [2]
Caesar was not less ruthless than Attila. [3]
But they are not exactly synonymous, since [2] allows the pos
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I usually see
ex. Caesar was no less ruthless than Attila.
Very broadly speaking, I take the intended meaning to be that they were both extremely ruthless.
Clive
ex. Caesar was no less ruthless than Attila.
Very broadly speaking, I take the intended meaning to be that they were both extremely ruthless.
Clive
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cho7712Attila was not more ruthless than Caesar. [2] Caesar was not less ruthless than Attila. [3]But they are not exactly synonymous, since [2] allows the possibility that Attila was less ruthless and[3] that he was more ruthless.That is certainly verbatim. I have tried to wrap my head around Quirk's sentences, but I still have a feeling that it is an unnot
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