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Maple Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

than in "commoner than realised"

Sentence:

SLDs are commoner than realised and affect about 10% of children.

Question:

What part of speech is than here? And could you please do some grammatical analysis of this sentence?

Thanks in advance!
  

Top answer

Hi, SLDs are commoner than realised and affect about 10% of children. Question: What part of speech is than here? And could you please do some grammatical analysis of this sentence?

— Clive

  • Hi, SLDs are commoner than realised and affect about 10% of children.
  • Question: What part of speech is than here?
  • And could you please do some grammatical analysis of this sentence?
  • SLDs subject of two main clauses are verb commoner than realised adjectival phrase, in which 'than' is a conjunction connecting the two parts of the comparison and conjunction connecting two main clauses affect verb about adverb, modifying the phrase that follows 10% of children.
  • object phrase Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

SLDs are commoner than realised and affect about 10% of children.

Question:

What part of speech is than here? And could you please do some grammatical analysis of this sentence?

SLDs subject of two main clauses

are verb

commoner
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Thanks for your very helpful elaboration , Clive!![C]Emotion: star
commoner than realised adjectival phrase, in which 'than' i
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Yes, they're OK.

more than anticipated
less than expected
more difficult than anticipated
higher than originally quoted
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Thanks for your confirmation, Amy! [C]

Maple
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