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SanjiFanboy Posted 7 years ago
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The Parsing Of Be Worth More Than

Most people now know companies like Google & Facebook collect & sell your data. Yet some people still think, "So what? I have nothing to hide." Here's five compelling reasons to tell them why your privacy is worth more than you think!


I try to parse it. More than you think is a (pro)noun phrase, functioning as the complement of 'worth'. More is the head of 'more than you think', than you think being the complement of 'more'. Would you be kind enough to tell me if my parsing is right or not? Frankly speaking, I'm not able to tell whether than you think is a relative clause.

  

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Here's five compelling reasons to tell them why your privacy is worth more than you think. No, there's no relative clause. "Worth more than you think" is an adjective phrase as predicative complement of "be".

  • Here's five compelling reasons to tell them why your privacy is worth more than you think.
  • No, there's no relative clause.
  • "Worth more than you think" is an adjective phrase as predicative complement of "be".
  • Within that phrase, "more than you think" is complement of "worth", where "more" is a 'fused' determiner-head.
  • "You think" is a comparative clause as complement of "than".
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Here's five compelling reasons to tell them why your privacy is worth more than you think.

No, there's no relative clause.

"Worth more than you think" is an adjective phrase as predicative complement of "be". Within that phrase, "more than you think" is complement of "worth", where "more" is a 'fused' determiner-head.

"You think" is a comparative clause as compl

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