Hi everyone,
This is a question from an English test that is completely unrelated to CP. I'm trying to figure out which option is the most reasonable here:
My son is expecting the holiday much ...
$$$A.$$$ more than we do
$$$B.$$$ more than we are
Which answer do you think is the correct one? Honestly, my English is quite poor, so I would really appreciate your help.
Thank you so much!
Do you deliberately want to get a negative contribution?
Hmm, I don't think so. I'm actually trying to figure out the correct answer to this question (as shown in the image below). I noticed a lot of people choosing 'more we do' while many others are picking 'more we are', so I wanted to ask the Codeforces community since I think you guys could help me out with this
If you think this is a trash post, Im really sorry. I know cf is a cp platform, but Im genuinely stuck on this grammar point and could really use some help from the sharp minds here
Thanks!
I think C.
much more than xxx is good, it's a comparison. much than xxx is grammarly incorrect.
and if choose C, it equals to "My son is expecting the holiday much more than we are expecting." Valid comparison.
If choose D, it's comparing "my son expecting holiday" to "we"; which is mismatched.
If choose B, "much as we do" isn't logically correct. If you use "as much as we are" it'll be correct.
Note: "much more than we do" is also incorrect.
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i think ans is this My son is expecting much more than we do.
15 days until the thptqg and good luck chupe (do u want to learn in apcs?)
Oh, Thanks, Im also planning to study apcs. I hope I'll pass :3
B sounds more natural to me, since the first part is "My son is expecting" and not "My son expects" (in which case I'd say A).
I agree that B is definitely correct.
To give a similar example that perhaps better illustrates the mechanic, consider the sentence
"I like to do Codeforces, AtCoder, and to do ICPC."This clearly violates parallelism (it is both objectively incorrect and sounds wrong), as"AtCoder"is a noun and"to do ICPC"is an infinitive verb. Either"I like to do Codeforces, to do AtCoder, and to do ICPC"or"I like to do Codeforces, AtCoder, and ICPC"would be proper sentences, as the former is of the form"I like {infinitive, infinitive, infinitive}"and the latter is of the form"I like to do {noun, noun, noun},"both of which satisfy parallelism (the latter is more natural in my opinion since it's more concise, but both are fine).The example in the blog uses the particle "than," which similarly mandates parallelism. The sentence
"my son is expecting the holiday much more than we do"is of the form"my son {present progressive verb} much more than {present indicative verb},"which is incorrect. The sentences"my son is expecting the holiday much more than we are"or"my son expects the holiday much more than we do"are both correct, as the former uses only present progressive verbs, and the latter uses only present indicative verbs.