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Tham khảo tài liệu 'english grammar workbook for dummies_8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 17 Apples and Oranges Improper Comparisons Jn This Chapter Avoiding incomplete or illogical comparisons Handling double comparisons ou can t compare apples and oranges according to the old saying but that error is only one of many common comparison mistakes. Sitting in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium I once heard a fan compare the Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter to the Yankee players. The imaginary umpire I conjured up the one who knows the rules of grammar as thoroughly as the rules of baseball immediately screamed Foul You should have compared Jeter to the other Yankee players. The real me kept her mouth shut. My reputation for nerdiness is bad enough as it is. Chapter 16 explains one- or two-word comparisons this chapter takes you through more complicated situations including illogical comparisons like the Jeter comment and incomplete comparisons. You can also practice double comparisons a sentence construction for people who like to hedge their bets. As they say in Yankee Stadium play ball No One Likes to Feet Incomplete and Neither Do Comparisons By definition a comparison discusses two elements in relation to each other or singles out the extreme in a group and explains exactly what form the extremism takes. For example She throws more pies than I do or Of all the clowns she throws the most pies. A comparison may also examine something in relation to a standard as in Her comment was so sugary that I had to take an extra shot of diabetes medication. A comparison may be any of these things but what it may not be is partially absent. If someone says The snapper is not as fresh or The sea bass is most musical you re at sea. As fresh as what Most musical in comparison to whom You have no way of knowing. Of course in context these sentences may be perfectly all right I considered the snapper but in the end went with the flounder. The snapper is not as fresh. 216 Part IV All You Need to Know about Descriptions and Comparisons In the preceding example the reader

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