not any + comparison / not nearly as + adjective

[denismurs]

Hello,
I want to undestand better these expressions: not any + comparison (quicker). I've found it in the paragraph of Intensifiyng and Modifying Comparisons.

For example: His car is not any quicker. Does this sentence stand for his car has the same speed as the majority of them?

And another expression: not nearly as + adjective.
For example: The ticket is worth not nearly as cheap. Does it mean that the ticket is far away from to be cheap?

Denis.

 

[bhaisahab]

"His car is not any quicker" is correct but incomplete. You need to say what it is no quicker than.
"This ticket is worth not nearly as cheap" doesn't make sense.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think 'The ticket is nowhere near cheap' makes sense.

 

[emsr2d2]

That would only work if the preceding sentence tried to claim that it is cheap.

A: I want to travel by train from London to Edinburgh. I've heard the tickets are really cheap.
B: Well, it costs about £200.
A: Wow, that's nowhere near cheap!

 

[denismurs]

"This ticket is worth not nearly as cheap" doesn't make sense.

Ok. I've gone over in the course book and after that I think I should have used such form: "This year the price of the football match Barcelona - Madrid is not nearly cheap as the last one."

How do you think is it ok with the grammatical construction now?

 

[Matthew Wai]

The tickets for the football match this year are not as cheap as the ones last year.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'd probably say "... not nearly as cheap as they were last year" or simply "... not nearly as cheap as last year".