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New2grammar  #521531  Sun, 01 Jun 08 05:19 AM

1 I love you more than anyone (loves you)

2 I love you more than money (loves you? This is wrong, IMO but it's commonly said. It should be I love your more than I love money)

Can anyone explain what the second doesn't follow the first construction?

Thanks!

 
  
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Marius Hancu  #521535  Sun, 01 Jun 08 05:39 AM

 2: first time I hear it, strange, but then it's also said by Bob Dylan, it seems, so it must be used:-)

 

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Marius Hancu  #521607  Sun, 01 Jun 08 01:03 PM
> I love you more than money (loves you?

No, it means more than I love money 

seems natural to me in this sense.  
  
Clive  #521644  Sun, 01 Jun 08 01:57 PM

Hi,

1 I love you more than anyone.

2 I love you more than money.

In terms of meaning, only #1 seems ambiguous to me.

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Cool Breeze  #521656  Sun, 01 Jun 08 02:16 PM
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1 I love you more than anyone (loves you)

2 I love you more than money (loves you? This is wrong, IMO but it's commonly said. It should be I love your more than I love money)

Can anyone explain what the second doesn't follow the first construction?

 

Hi N2G

English is a language of fixed phrases and, theoretically at least, often inexact. One reason for this is a lack of inflections and grammatical forms. Anyone has only two forms, the other being anyone's. If there were an object form, it would be used in the first sentence if anyone were meant to be an object. The same applies to money in the second sentence. Money has no object form. Even though English is inherently ambiguous, English speakers want to understand one another correctly and true misunderstandings rarely occur.

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Tanit  #521691  Sun, 01 Jun 08 03:39 PM
Hi N2G,

I came across this thread, and Clive's post about ambiguity in sentence no.1 made me think of another discussion about sentences like "I love her more than you". (I thought you might be interested in it. If you're not, please skip this post Smile )
  
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New2grammar  #521759  Sun, 01 Jun 08 07:09 PM

Thanks, MH, Clive, CB and Tanit.

Tanit, the thread really helps. I just need to get the hang of it. Still doesn't come naturally to me.
  
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