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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Which sentence is gramatically correct?

Mary states that she knows the neighbor better than Scott.
Mary states that she knows the neighbor better than Scott does.
  

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Both are correct grammatically, but the first is ambiguous. It could be read to mean that Mary knows the neighbor better than she knows Scott.

  • Both are correct grammatically, but the first is ambiguous.
  • It could be read to mean that Mary knows the neighbor better than she knows Scott.
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Both are correct grammatically, but the first is ambiguous.

It could be read to mean that Mary knows the neighbor better than she knows Scott.

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