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by hbhardwaj » Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:01 am
Q - Which one out of the two following sentence is correct.

1. I contributed more to the party than did anyone else.
2. ............................................... than anyone else did.
3. Both
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by force5 » Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:00 am
B is better in structure, although both are grammatically correct in terms of parallelism
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by atulmangal » Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:03 am
force5 wrote:B is better in structure, although both are grammatically correct in terms of parallelism
Agree with force
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by aspirant2011 » Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:03 am
yup B is better because if u see in B then in B "than" is being used which is basically used for comparison.......in B "I is being compared to anyone"
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by hbhardwaj » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:00 am
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by EducationAisle » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:54 am
Both are absolutely fine grammatically.

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by hbhardwaj » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:22 am
Thanks Ashish.

What if we add "in the class" at the end i.e

1. I contributed more to the party than did anyone else in the class.
2. .....................................anyone else did in the class.

Are they both still grammatically acceptable?

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by EducationAisle » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:55 am
hbhardwaj wrote:
Are they both still grammatically acceptable?
Yes, but a better way perhaps would be:

In the class, I contributed more to the party than did anyone else.
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by hbhardwaj » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:37 am
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by ram2 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:30 am
Think B is perfect.
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by LIL » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:26 am
EducationAisle wrote:
hbhardwaj wrote:
Are they both still grammatically acceptable?
Yes, but a better way perhaps would be:

In the class, I contributed more to the party than did anyone else.
i don't think these are both grammatically correct. the first two are fine *if* you don't add anything to the end. once you add "in the class" to the end of the sentence(s), you shouldn't split up "anyone else" and "in the class."

thus, "i contributed more to the party than anyone else did in the class" is ambiguous: it can either mean that you contributed more to the party than did anyone else in the class, or it can mean that you contributed more to the party *while sitting in the classroom* than did anyone else *while sitting in the classroom*. also, because "in the class" is attached to "did" without a comma, it infers that the latter is the preferred explanation.
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by hbhardwaj » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:51 am
Yeah, your logic makes sense... thanks
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