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JuLiS Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Subordinators

Could you tell me what "no sooner than .....than, when" means? And how to classify correlative subordinators?
  

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than, when" doesn't seem right. You are probably thinking of something slightly different, possibly "no sooner had/was ... " or "no sooner do ...

— GPY

  • than, when" doesn't seem right.
  • You are probably thinking of something slightly different, possibly "no sooner had/was ...
  • " or "no sooner do ...
  • ".
  • Do you have a whole example sentence?
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"no sooner than .....than, when" doesn't seem right. You are probably thinking of something slightly different, possibly "no sooner had/was ... than ..." or "no sooner do ... than ...".

Do you have a whole example sentence?
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No, I don't. I just see it in " a student's grammar of the English Language" book. I have to give an example for each correlative subordinators for my exercise, but i don't understand what does it mean.
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JuLiSno sooner than
This is not quite right.

No sooner had I opened the door when everyone shouted "Surprise!"
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As soon as I opened the door, everyone shouted "Surprise!"

CJ
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Yes, I think so. Maybe there're some mistake in the my book. Thanks to both of you.
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