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Is 'more' required?

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Yoong Liat
 
Reply Sat 22 Sep, 2007 07:57 pm
...in which a more rigorous and [more?] challenging workload is offered.

Would I have to insert the 'more' before 'challenging' in the sentence above? Which is favored in formal writing?

Many thanks.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Sun 23 Sep, 2007 03:32 am
Re: Is 'more' required?
Yoong Liat wrote:
...in which a more rigorous and [more?] challenging workload is offered.

Would I have to insert the 'more' before 'challenging' in the sentence above? Which is favored in formal writing?

Many thanks.
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roger
 
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Reply Sun 23 Sep, 2007 09:46 am
Re: Is 'more' required?
Yoong Liat wrote:
...in which a more rigorous and [more?] challenging workload is offered.

Would I have to insert the 'more' before 'challenging' in the sentence above? Which is favored in formal writing?

Many thanks.


Either is correct, so more would not be required. Sounds like something someone would put into a job resume, though. The use of 'more' indicates the old job was also challenging, but the person wants to indicate he is looking for more challenge than in the last position. If that's the context, I would leave it in.
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Mame
 
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Reply Sun 23 Sep, 2007 10:12 am
Using the word "more" once in front of "rigorous and challenging" implies it is modifying both words.

If you didn't want to modify the word "challenging" with "more", you would place it before, as in ... challenging and more rigorous.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Sun 23 Sep, 2007 10:26 am
Many thanks for your replies.
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