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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.
@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.
I guess I'd say:
Mary talks to Peter more often than anyone else.
@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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