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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Question on more-than

I mulled on a sentence that I seldom use. Does the below sentence sound correct ? or does it sound ambiguous?

" I am more a suitor to university work than corporate office work".

Should I make it clearer by expounding " of" after more, repeat the noun " suitor" after than or a pronoun representing the noun "suitor"?
_"I am more of a suitor to university work than to corporate work"
or
" I am more of a suitor to university work than a suitor to corporate work".
The last one sounds superfluous to me.
  

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First, please clarify your meaning. The word ' suitor ' seems incorrect here, unless you are using the word in some figurative way that I do not understand. The usual meaning of the word is 'a man who woos a woman''.

— Clive

  • First, please clarify your meaning.
  • The word ' suitor ' seems incorrect here, unless you are using the word in some figurative way that I do not understand.
  • The usual meaning of the word is 'a man who woos a woman''.
  • Do you perhaps mean ' I am more suited to.
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First, please clarify your meaning.

The word 'suitor' seems incorrect here, unless you are using the word in some figurative way that I do not understand.
The usual meaning of the word is 'a man who woos a woman''.

Do you perhaps mean
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