Timeline for As much as "you" or "you do"
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| Jul 12, 2014 at 20:08 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | I don't think that's true. There's no requirement to restate the verb in comparisons. Compare "Bob's as tall as Ada" "I ate more than Maria", "My elephant's bigger than yours" These are in no way ungrammatical. They are clunky the other way round: "Bob's as tall as Ada is", "I ate more than Maria ate", "My elephants bigger than yours is". Even in formal writing... compare "The FTSE has consistently fared better than the Dow Jones" versus "The FTSE has consistently fared better than the Dow Jones has" | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 3:01 | history | answered | Aidan Miles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |