earns a substantially more amount of money than anybody on a pension.

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I know this is an awkward sentence, but is it at all grammatically incorrect?

"earns a substantially more amount of money than anybody on a pension."


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It sounds awkward to me and there is no subject. I'd write, "Bob earns substantially more money than anybody on a pension".
 

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It's wrong because you can't have "a more amount"
If you're making a comparative sentence you could have
He earns substantially more (than anybody on a pension)
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He earns a substantially higher amount (than anybody on a pension).
 

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It's wrong because you can't have "a more amount"
If you're making a comparative sentence you could have
He earns substantially more (than anybody on a pension)
or
He earns a substantially higher amount (than anybody on a pension).


Cheers. Thought as much. It had me stumped. :)

I was going to have it re-written as "he earns a substantially larger amount than".

So it can't be written as "more amount", but could be written as "larger amount"?
 
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