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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Starting a sentence with 'than'
I came across this sentence in Maugham's Cakes and Ale :
Than Roy no one could show a more genuine cordiality to a fellow novelist whose name was on everybody’s lips, but no one could more genially turn a cold shoulder on him when idleness, failure or someone else’s success had cast a shade on his notoriety.
I just wondered how many people would consider this sentence to be outright ungrammatical, on the borders of the grammatical/ungrammatical or simply poor, clumsy style.
Than Roy no one could show a more genuine cordiality to a fellow novelist whose name was on everybody’s lips, but no one could more genially turn a cold shoulder on him when idleness, failure or someone else’s success had cast a shade on his notoriety.
I just wondered how many people would consider this sentence to be outright ungrammatical, on the borders of the grammatical/ungrammatical or simply poor, clumsy style.
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- - Structurally defensible, but definitely misguided style.
- - - Structurally defensible, but definitely misguided style.
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I just wondered how many people would consider this sentence to be outright ungrammatical, on the borders of the grammatical/ungrammatical or simply poor, clumsy style.-- Structurally defensible, but definitely misguided style.
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