as much /more than

[Guest007]

Hi Tutors,
Say I have a sentence :
X is as much or more as Y and another one :
X is as much as or more than Y

Which one should I prefer between the above two?

[Guest007]

Could some expert help, please?
Thanks,

[sumithshah]

Hi

Here's what I've gathered from working on problems - each comparison should be complete in its own sense : for example

The new sculpture is as fragile as the old one, if not more fragile.

Eleanor is almost as annoying as Sarah, if not equally annoying.

Carrie’s speech on tariff reduction was as complicated as, if not more complicated
than, Jessica’s oration.

The preceding examples are correct because each falls into one of two categories:

The first comparison is completed before the second begins. The first two sentences in the preceding example set follow this pattern.

The beginning of both comparisons may be logically completed by the phrase at the end of the sentence.

The third sample sentence in the preceding set falls into this ( 2nd) category.

( Above examples taken from the Dummies Guide to English :D )

Also, sometimes Gmat likes to make something like "as expensive as, if not more" into "atleast as expensive as" - brevity comes into act here


Stacy / Ron - your thoughts would help.

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[RonPurewal]

Hi Tutors,
Say I have a sentence :
X is as much or more as Y and another one :
X is as much as or more than Y

Which one should I prefer between the above two?

the second one.

shortcuts such as the first one are wrong, because you can't use 'as' with 'more'. you just can't.
as much takes the linker as.
more (or less) takes the linker than.
because you need the 2 different linkers, you need an OR construction that specifically contains both of them. the second does this job admirably well, while the first one is busy spitting out, wrongly enough, that 'x is more as y'.

second one all the way. in fact, that's really the only non-wordy way to write that construction correctly.

[Guest]

Thanks Ron,,Ur opinion always helps!
cheers!