Timeline for Is "A is to B what C is to D" correct
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| Oct 9, 2023 at 14:00 | history | edited | typed-sigterm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarify & improve
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| Oct 9, 2023 at 13:43 | vote | accept | typed-sigterm | ||
| Oct 9, 2023 at 11:56 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | The traditional wording (in simple word comprehension exercises) is "A is to B as C is to ...?" | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 8:02 | answer | added | gotube♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 8, 2023 at 16:38 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Oct 8, 2023 at 16:17 | comment | added | KaiKai | Understood. My English is really "Chinglish" :( | |
| Oct 8, 2023 at 15:42 | comment | added | John Lawler | As is more common than what in this construction. | |
| Oct 8, 2023 at 13:26 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The initial sentence is fine, A reordering is 'What exercise is to our body. sport is to our life.' This sort of comparison is known as a proportionality [relation]. Better known is the mathematical variety, 'A is to B as C is to D' or 'A : B :: C : D'. The comparison in maths is confined to ratios: 'the scale factor between A and B is the same as that between C and D'. Thus 17 : 119 :: 8 : 56 (identical scale factor, 7). | |
| Oct 8, 2023 at 13:26 | comment | added | Henry | You might instead say "(The relationship of sport to our life) is similar to (the relationship of exercise to our body)." There is a curious plural/singular form in "our life" and then again in "our body". | |
| Oct 8, 2023 at 13:14 | comment | added | tchrist | What do you mean that you cannot analyze it? Where is there a mistake? | |
| Oct 8, 2023 at 12:44 | history | asked | KaiKai | CC BY-SA 4.0 |