"as many as" usage
Someonekicked
I guess its an ESL issue, Im taking the GRE, and one question in the
quantitative part was:
"twice as many boys as girls earned ..."
I interpreted it as the number of girls is twice the number of boys, but it
turns out it is the other way around!
I tried to search online (google) for some tutorial for "as many as", but
found none; do you have any links for such tutorial? or if anyone can help
explaining how "as many as" can be used in different situations, and what it
means every time, it is very confusing to me.
thx in advance!
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S>"twice as many boys as girls earned ..."
... "x times as many as y" always means that x is a multiple of y. No variation
of the theme. I have 3 times as many dollars as you have in your wallet means
it's always 3 times the amount of money you have, no matter what. If you have
10 bucks then I have 30 bucks. It's just that easy, no grammatical specialty
here and no variation of a theme.
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