Liveinjapan  +  681120 Sat, 28 Feb 09 06:58 AM Life would be better for them without cars. The air would be cleaner, and it wouldn't be as noisy or dangerous. How does as work? Seems to me that "as noisy or dangerous as it is." Thanks Liveinjapan Joined on Sun, Feb 4 2007 Osaka, Japan Senior Member 2,280 Please feel free to correct any words I wrote.LiJ

	Thomas Tompion  +  681169 Sat, 28 Feb 09 12:12 PM Yes, I think that puts it very well, Liveinjapan. We could also say, more correctly perhaps, Life wouldn't be so noisy or so dangerous. Incidentally, in your sentence, I'm not happy that the it manages to refer back to life. I think the it would, at first reading, be taken to refer to the air. Thomas Tompion Joined on Thu, Nov 20 2008 Full Member 120 Thomas Tompion Sentences