evs.teja wrote:I am having trouble with more in option B: more was their likelihood of having coronary disease and greater in option D:greater was their likelihood of having coronary disease.
Is there a technique such as the one you mentioned above to find out that more/greater is an adjective ?
Many SCs are about data points: a cost, a price, a likelihood, etc.
A data point cannot be
more.
A data point can only be
higher, greater, lower, etc.
Incorrect:
The likelihood of X is more than the likelihood of Y.
Correct:
The likelihood of X is GREATER than the likelihood of Y.
Is there a general technique for finding adverbs ?
Generally , I learnt for a sentence How does the trick to find an adverb.
For eg The dog killed the cat quickly.
How did the dog kill the cat ?
He killed her quickly.
But am not able to apply the same rule here.
Please help me out !!!
Regards
Teja
The faster John dances, the more he smiles.
Here, the modifiers in blue are both ADVERBS, the first expressing how fast John DANCES, the second expressing the extent to which John SMILES.
In each portion of the comparison, the structure is the same:
the + COMPARATIVE + SUBJECT + VERB.
In this structure, the comparative will typically serve as an adverb modifying the following verb.
A:
the more coffee these doctors drank, the more they had
C:
the more coffee these doctors drank, the more they would have
In these options, the modifiers in red are each followed by SUBJECT + VERB, so each seems to be an adverb modifying the following verb.
Your method for identifying an adverb is sound.
It does not work for A and C because these options distort the intended meaning.
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