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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

sentence symmetry

How must I make the sentences symmetrical?
I have more than double the amount than my opponent.
There is a better chance that he doesn't have it than he does have it.
  

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Anonymous I have more than double the amount than my opponent. " Anonymous There is a better chance that he doesn't have it than he does have it. " That's how I would rephrase these examples, but I'm sure there are other ways.

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  • Anonymous I have more than double the amount than my opponent.
  • " Anonymous There is a better chance that he doesn't have it than he does have it.
  • " That's how I would rephrase these examples, but I'm sure there are other ways.
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AnonymousI have more than double the amount than my opponent.
"I have more than double the amount [of ...] as my opponent does."
AnonymousThere is a better chance that he doesn't have it than he does have it.
"There is a better chance of him not having it, than of him having it."


That's how I woul
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AnonymousHow must I make the sentences symmetrical?
The term you are looking for is 'parallel.' I agree with DoNotPassGo's suggestions.
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DoNotPassGoI have more than double the amount [of ...] as my opponent does.
That doesn't sound right to me. I'd go for I have twice/double the amount (that) my opponent has/does.

As a speaker of BrE, I'd use has rather than does for the final (underlined) word.
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Well, the verb that goes along with "does" is sort of implicit. What if I changed the verb used earlier in the sentence:

"I shot twice as many ducks as my opponent did [shoot]."
"I own twice the amount of acreage as my neighbor does [own]."

I think that "does" effectively refers back to whatever verb you used relating the amount and the subject. Therefore I think these phrase
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fivejedjonI have twice/double the amount (that) my opponent has/does.
This sounds more common to me than DoNotPassGo's version.
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This is wrong

"I have more than double the amount [of ...] as my opponent does."

It's
"I have more than double the amount [of ...] than that of my opponent"

more....than

not more...as
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OK, firstly it's pretty confrontational to start right off the bat and say "This is wrong."

Secondly, I'm not using the phrase "more....as" anywhere in the sentence unless you ignore several other words in between. I am already saying "more...than" when I say "I have more than double..." and the rest of the sentence is not determined by the fact that I used "more" alr
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sorry I meant to get rid of the than

I am saying that I have more than double the amount that you have is correct.

This is grammatically incorrect.

"I have more than double the amount [of ...] as my opponent does."

this is also incorrect.

I have more than double the amount than you have

These are correct as well.
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"I have more than double the amount [of ....] as my opponent does."

This sounds perfectly fine to me, and I am a native English speaker. Pardon me, but you'll need to either discredit it using a rule, or using an argument against its utility in a sentence. I'm not going to just take your word that it's incorrect.

Furthermore, I don't see how your examples are any better:
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Let’s imagine we are talking about amounts of money: A has £x. B has £2x

These are natural:
B has twice as much
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