Timeline for More...than comparison sentences
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:20 | comment | added | Adam |
I don't know what the "even" is adding to the sentence. "He really does know more [about cars] than [about his son.]" The structure is " [Subject] [verb] more [X] than [Y]." When even sounds right to me, the structure is " [Subject1] [verb] more [X] than even [Subject2] ([same verb elided] [X elided] )"
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | technophyle | I agree it sounds a bit awkward, but still I can't find another better way to express the idea.. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:15 | comment | added | Adam | I guess not. I don't like the sound of it, and I wouldn't say it, but I can't point at a specific problem. Must be a matter of style. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | technophyle | you're right in the current context, as it is not a common sense to know about engineers. but what about in the following case? "He really does know more about cars than even about his son." would you still say "than even about" is grammatically incorrect? | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | Adam | There is no ambiguiity. The elision issue you are calling out in the second sentence doesn't really exist, because "He really does know more about cars than even about the engineers." is not grammatically correct. You can't have "...than even about...". Leave out the "even", and he knows very little about engineers. Leave out "about" and he knows more than engineers know. | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 19:45 | history | edited | technophyle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 19:37 | history | answered | technophyle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |