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[liu1993918]

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[RonPurewal]

Per the forum rules, please post all of the following for this sentence:
* A citation of the original source
* The complete problem
* All answer choices

Thanks.

Also, could you please link to the post you're quoting? It might be several years old. (During that time, I've realized that comparisons can be treated more simply.)

[liu1993918]

This sentence is from 13th og sc 65#. Can i post the whole question here?
If i can't, can u explain whether this ruls is still right??

The link that i quote:
despite-recent-increases-in-sales-and-cash-flow-t5893.html

[RonPurewal]

No, you can't reproduce the OG problem here. (You can't reproduce anything from OG here.)

Since you were honest about the source, though, here's an answer. (The thread is now locked, and I've removed the original sentence"”but you know what I'm describing.)

There are many comparisons like this, in which the right-hand side doesn't create strict parallelism but instead just consists of some modifier"”an adjective, an adverb, or else something that plays one of those roles.

E.g.,
Traffic is moving much more slowly than usual today.
We now know that Ron is much older than previously thought.
The country's economy is now growing faster than ever.

I guess this is one of the few times when the best advice is just "See these; look at them; remember them."
Some of them are especially weird because they're adjectives when, grammatically, one would expect adverbs. (E.g., "usual" in the first sentence describes the movement of the traffic, so, if this sentence were to follow normal grammar patterns, one would expect "usually".)

[RonPurewal]

Even though this thread is now dead, you may continue the discussion (if you want) by starting another thread in the general verbal folder. If you do so, just don't quote the OG again.

Thanks.