Comparatives She is as excellent A STUDENT as he is. They are as excellent STUDENTS as we are. Are the above sentences correct? When the comparison involves not only an adjective but a quality ex

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Comparatives She is as excellent A STUDENT as he is. They are as excellent STUDENTS as we are. Are the above sentences correct? When the comparison involves not only an adjective but a quality expressed by a noun+adjective (in this case, not only "excellent" but "excellent student"), the structure seems different based on whether the subject is singular or plural. Would you use other structures in order to express the same idea?

2012년 9월 1일 오전 10:39

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This is correct in British English as far as I know however I would favour an alternative structure such as:

She is an excellent student, as is he.

They are excellent students, as are we.

They problem is that the meaning might slightly change with this alteration. The original sentences convey the meaning that 'A is <em>just</em> as good as B' as if someone has suggested otherwise. My 'correction' has the meaning that 'A+B are good' as if to clarify that everyone, in fact, is good.

n.b. this is fairly high level analysis so I wouldn't worry too much, your similie is correct.

2012년 9월 1일

Nono, sorry, there is not any particle there, it's just She is as excellent student as he is.

But She is an excellent student, just as he is is more natural.

2012년 9월 1일

Thank you very much for your suggestion Paul, but I'm afraid you didn't completely get to my point. ;) In fact, my focus was not an the adjective itself, and I could have chosen whatever other adjective such as "talented", "depraved", "obnoxious", "cosmopolitan" and so on, since I was concerned with the structure and the grammar, not with the semantics. :D Being quite sure about the correctness of the structure in my first example, I was wondering if the second one was correct as well. I'm sure you can be of help on this one!

2012년 9월 1일

Comparatives

She is as an excellent A STUDENT as he is.
They are as excellent STUDENTS as we are.

The structures are correct, only the particle is before the adjective.

Another way to say it could be "She is an excellent student, just as he is." ;)

2012년 9월 1일

No they are not correct. Excellent isnt a comparative so you can have She is an excellent student. He is an excellent student. We are excellent students. You can use, She is as good a student as he is or She is a better student than he is or she is a worse student than he is.

2012년 9월 1일

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