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Klavier Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Object of comparison

Hello.
Grammatically speaking, what would be the object of comparison in the next sentence, the verb: know or the noun people?

You know more people than me.
  

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Hi, Grammatically speaking, what would be the object of comparison in the next sentence, the verb: know or the noun people ? You know more people than me. I'm not familiar with the term object of comparison , but I don't see how the verb can possibly be considered as any kind of object.

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  • Hi, Grammatically speaking, what would be the object of comparison in the next sentence, the verb: know or the noun people ?
  • You know more people than me.
  • I'm not familiar with the term object of comparison , but I don't see how the verb can possibly be considered as any kind of object.
  • The object of the sentence is 'people'.
  • Purists might argue that you should use the pronoun 'I' instead of 'me'.
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Hi,

Grammatically speaking, what would be the object of comparison in the next sentence, the verb: know or the noun people?

You know more people than me.


I'm not familiar with the term object of comparison, but I don't see how the verb can possibly be considered as any kind
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What about this sentence?

He studies as much as you.

We are comparing here the verb or implicitly we are comparing how many hours both of them are studying? And the object of comparison would be the noun hours?
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Hi,

He studies as much as you.

We are comparing here the verb or implicitly we are comparing how many hours both of them are studying? And the object of comparison would be the noun hours?

I'd say you're comparing adverbs. He studies a little. You study a little. He studies as much as
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