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Old 09-Jul-2005, 21:26
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Default Re: (just) as much ... as ... Prescriptive or Descriptive?

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Originally Posted by M56
Did anyone tell MissQ that "much" is modifying both "unnecessary" and "undesirable" in the example sentence?
That's an interesting thought, M56.

1. That's as much undesirable as it's unnecessary.

I would take 'as much' for a compound adverb; whereas the second 'as' strikes me as a conjunction.

How do you see them?

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