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Jadel Posted 10 years ago
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She is smarter than originally though.
Is it correct?
  

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Perhaps you mean this: She is smarter than originally thought .

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Perhaps you mean this:

She is smarter than originally thought.
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Okay,
When I say "scientists now think those creatures were smarter than originally thought"
Does "originally thought" refer to "scientists"?
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They are smarter than the scientists originally thought they were.
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We don't know who originally thought about their smartness.
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She is smarter than originally thought.
Does "originally thought" refer to "she"?

She's smarter than it's originally thought.
Is it correct?
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She is smarter than SOMEONE originally thought.

As fivejedjon points out, we don't know WHO originally thought she was not as smart as she is.
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fivejedjonWe don't know who originally thought about their smartness.
That is true.
It seems to be "a common belief" that they were not smart. So it seems likely that the scientists started with this belief as well, but you are correct - the sentence as it stands does not tell us who thought it.
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JadelDoes "originally thought" refer to "scientists"?
I'd say there's a problem with the way you're using the word "refer".

In general, only nouns 'refer'. When I use the word 'table' it refers to a real table in the real world. Words refer to things.

Within a sentence, 'refer' usually means that a pronoun (she) refers both to
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