iongmat wrote:Why can't B be interpreted as:
..an amount greater than (amount) any other candidate raised.
comparisons must explicitly compare a pair of parallel things. there's some flexibility there, but, if you get rid of the parallel things, you don't have a valid comparison anymore.
e.g.
more people take taxis to the airport than drive to it
here, "take taxis to the airport" is parallel to "drive to it".
more people take taxis to the airport than from it
here, "to it" is parallel to "from it".
you could argue about whether there's an omission of "take them" from the latter part, but there's still actually a parallel structure there.
if you have "an amount greater than X raised", then nothing at all on the right-hand side is parallel to "an amount". no go.
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