The conjunction "and" is used to link the two qualities being compared. We can reason it out by noticing that the first word of each comparison ("harder" and "more", respectively) require "than" to make the comparison complete.spartacus1412 wrote:A very general query..
Soft plaque is harder to detect and more vulnerable to rupture than hard plaque, now emerging as the cause of up to eighty percent of heart attacks.
how does this translate to harder to detect[than hard plaque] and more vulnerable to rupture than hard plaque.
in my opinion, the sentence carries a wrong meaning.the phrase "than hard plague " is associated with "more vulnerable to rupture" and not with "harder to detect".
Please clarify.
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A modifier that ends in -ER (such as harder) is called a comparative.spartacus1412 wrote:A very general query..
Soft plaque is harder to detect and more vulnerable to rupture than hard plaque, now emerging as the cause of up to eighty percent of heart attacks.
how does this translate to harder to detect[than hard plaque] and more vulnerable to rupture than hard plaque.
in my opinion, the sentence carries a wrong meaning.the phrase "than hard plague " is associated with "more vulnerable to rupture" and not with "harder to detect".
Please clarify.
A comparative must serve to compare TWO THINGS.
In other words, soft plaque must be HARDER than something else.
The only viable candidate is hard plaque: soft plaque is harder to detect than HARD PLAQUE [is hard to detect].
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