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the person she talk to more frequently than others

 
 
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 04:35 am
My sentence:

-Mary talks to Peter more than to other people.

The meaning I want to convey is, the number of times Mary talks to Peter/amount of conversation Mary has with Peter is more than that with other people.

1.But does my sentence convey this meaning in natural/idiomatic English?
2. Is there any ambiguity?

Thank you.
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 05:16 am
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:

1.But does my sentence convey this meaning in natural/idiomatic English?
2. Is there any ambiguity?


1. Yes, it does.
2. No ambiguity

You could write it more fully as "Mary talks to Peter more than she does to other people." but the "she does" can be safely omitted.

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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 09:41 am
I guess I'd say:

Mary talks to Peter more often than anyone else.
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Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2013 11:32 am
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:

I guess I'd say:

Mary talks to Peter more often than anyone else.



That is ambiguous because it could mean either:

Mary talks to Peter more often than she talks to anyone else.
Mary talks to Peter more often than anyone else does.


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