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From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Grammar: False comparsion Why?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:32:11 -0800
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"Devast8or" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Knoppix User wrote:
>> Someone told me, it is a false comparsion, unless I'm comparing her
>> to a small pizza!
>>
>> Sentence is:
>> I like small pizza better then you.
>>
>> I was trying to compare of what she likes and what I like.
>
>Don't you need to add a "do" after "you" to get that meaning? As the
>sentence is now, I read it as you could choose between a small pizza and
>this girl, you would take the pizza. I could be wrong though.
I think you're correct. Also, "than", not "then".
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Jack Hamilton
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And he who rejoices at the destruction of human life
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