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Old 10-Apr-2006, 04:23
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Unhappy About Comparative pattern!

Hello,everybody! Please tell me which of the 4 choices best suits the sentence given below (and why). Thanks!

The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of a fully-loaded truck, ______ to the truck.
A. the greater stress is
B. greater is the stress
C.the stress is greater
D. the greater the stress is
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Old 11-Apr-2006, 05:10
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Default Re: About Comparative pattern!

d- it balances and matches the structure at the start of the sentence to show how the two things are connected.
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