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Tkacka15 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
This was up there with any...
Muddled, half-arsed, this was up there with any of May’s more pointless statements
(The Guardian.)
Is the clause above a comparative one?
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tkacka15 Is the clause above a comparative one? I'd say semantically, yes, but syntactically, no. We expect "as" or "than" or a comparative adjective ( better, greater, ...
- tkacka15 Is the clause above a comparative one?
- I'd say semantically, yes, but syntactically, no.
- We expect "as" or "than" or a comparative adjective ( better, greater, ...
- ) with comparative clauses.
- I don't consider "more pointless" enough to say there's any comparative clause in the sentence.
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tkacka15Is the clause above a comparative one?
I'd say semantically, yes, but syntactically, no.
We expect "as" or "than" or a comparative adjective (better, greater, ...) with comparative clauses. I don't consider "more pointless" enough to say there's any comparative clause in the sentence.
Anyway, there's only one clause there that I
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