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Which is the correct structure when I use......as....as in a sentence?
No poet is as renowned as William Wordsworth is.
No other poet is as renowned as William Wordsworth is.
My grammar books says and many websites also say that 2 is grammatically correct though I have seen both are used in daily conversations by both native and non native speakers. Can anyone please explain If 1 is grammatical and if I can use both?
Strictly speaking, only 2 is correct. Since "William Wordsworth" is a poet himself, you can't say "he is not as renowned as he is", that's just plain wrong.
However, in daily conversation, I also hear a lot of 1 spoken. Daily speech tends to be less strict in grammar. So if you say 1 it's easily understood by people as when you do such a negative comparison, the object being compared to is implicitly excluded.
