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comparison without than [#permalink] New post   22 Oct 2013, 16:55
I remember that once in a sentence has a comparison adjective, the sentence must have than to complete the comparison. However, in some case I cannot find a way to correct a sentence using such adjective without than. For example:

A and B are of no less importance to C.

Please explain the use of comparison in this sentence. Is it correct?
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Re: comparison without than [#permalink] New post   23 Oct 2013, 13:23
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phammanhhiep wrote:
I remember that once in a sentence has a comparison adjective, the sentence must have than to complete the comparison. However, in some case I cannot find a way to correct a sentence using such adjective without than. For example:

A and B are of no less importance to C.

Please explain the use of comparison in this sentence. Is it correct?

Dear phammanhhiep,
I'm happy to help. :-)

Actually, that sentence involves no comparison at all. In that set-up, A & B would be attributes or qualities that C has, and the question remains --- having A & B is no less important to C than to whom? For example,

Evidence and deductive reasoning of no less important to history.

That sentence is problematic because it is an incomplete thought. No less important to history than to what else??

Yes, there are all kinds of comparisons that don't involve "than"
Compared to me, Einstein was much smarter.
In contrast to me, Kobe Bryant is taller.
Unlike Bach, Mozart wrote symphonies.
Italian cuisine is different from English cuisine in that the former uses more tomato sauce.
See this article on the idioms of comparison:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-idioms-of-comparison/
Also, here's an idiom that involves a pair of comparative adjectives, and doesn't use "than" at all:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gramm ... mparisons/

Does all this make sense? Did you have a particular question in mind?

Mike :-)
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Re: comparison without than [#permalink] New post   23 Oct 2013, 17:34
Thank you Mike!
This is the example of the structure:

While the relative costs of concrete and steel are a predominant consideration in the design of a skyscraper, of no less importance to civil engineers are the time needed to fabricate the structural elements and the distance of the project site from the production sites of the raw materials.

It seems that the author indicates the comparison between relative costs of concrete and steel and the time needed to fabricate the structural elements and the distance of the project site . Is this structure correct in GMAT?
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Re: comparison without than [#permalink] New post   24 Oct 2013, 10:31
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phammanhhiep wrote:
Thank you Mike!
This is the example of the structure:

While the relative costs of concrete and steel are a predominant consideration in the design of a skyscraper, of no less importance to civil engineers are the time needed to fabricate the structural elements and the distance of the project site from the production sites of the raw materials.

It seems that the author indicates the comparison between relative costs of concrete and steel and the time needed to fabricate the structural elements and the distance of the project site . Is this structure correct in GMAT?

Dear phammanhhiep,
That is a 100% bonafide correct sentence, and would be a fabulous sentence for the GMAT SC. That sentence, of course, is complicated with all kinds of detail. Here are some simpler sentences of the same fashion --- a factual statement in the first part, and then a comparative word creating a comparison in the second part.
While Mike has a large vocabulary, Chris has an even larger one.
DiMaggio was a great hitter, but Williams was better.
Chez Panisse is expensive, but the French Laundry is exorbitant!
The Upanishads are texts central to Hinduism; of no less importance is the Bhagavad Gita.
All of those are correct sentences, with correctly constructed comparisons. Does all this make sense?
Mike :-)
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Re: comparison without than [#permalink] New post   17 Jun 2018, 20:14
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mikemcgarry wrote:
phammanhhiep wrote:
Thank you Mike!
This is the example of the structure:

While the relative costs of concrete and steel are a predominant consideration in the design of a skyscraper, of no less importance to civil engineers are the time needed to fabricate the structural elements and the distance of the project site from the production sites of the raw materials.

It seems that the author indicates the comparison between relative costs of concrete and steel and the time needed to fabricate the structural elements and the distance of the project site . Is this structure correct in GMAT?

Dear phammanhhiep,
That is a 100% bonafide correct sentence, and would be a fabulous sentence for the GMAT SC. That sentence, of course, is complicated with all kinds of detail. Here are some simpler sentences of the same fashion --- a factual statement in the first part, and then a comparative word creating a comparison in the second part.
While Mike has a large vocabulary, Chris has an even larger one.
DiMaggio was a great hitter, but Williams was better.
Chez Panisse is expensive, but the French Laundry is exorbitant!
The Upanishads are texts central to Hinduism; of no less importance is the Bhagavad Gita.
All of those are correct sentences, with correctly constructed comparisons. Does all this make sense?
Mike :-)


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