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James,
I (we) am (are) SOOOO hampered by our present inability to R-K online.
I cannot understand "than" to modify "many" or "some" -- e.g. "than many" or "than some" ??? Rather "more... than many can".
I'm not too sure about this, but from your description, I think Moutoux MAY have this wrong.
Correlative conjunctions are REALLT cool -- the way they work.
Frank
Thank you for your note.
I know that if anyone else is reading this thread, they must be
wondering: why does anyone care about such a matter?
Well, we do, don't we!!!
According to the great diagrams in
Descriptive English Grammar, the
"many" is justified because it is the positive of the comparative
"more"
in the main clause.
For example, Professors House and Harman explain that "Tom is taller
than Mona" = "Tom is taller (more tall) than Mona is tall." I notice,
however, that the redoubtable Professor Quirk does NOT buy this view.
James