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bartholomew | 14:07 Sat 10th Jun 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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Are the two sentences correct?


1. She was more interetsed in boys than books.


2. She was more interested in boys than in books.

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I do a linguistics module as part of my degree and they both seem gramatically correct, may I ask why your asking that?
Both are perfectly correct...apart from the typo in No.1.

If the word 'books' is replaced by an animate noun, say 'dogs', the meaning of sentence no 2 would be definite. Sentence no 1 could be ambiguous; it could mean that she was less interested in dogs but it could also mean that she had more interest in boys than dogs did.


Grunty is correct, but the sense of 1 is clear enough, so it is good idiomatic English. It might be more ambiguous if it read 'She liked Bill more than Ted' - that is, it could mean 'She liked Bill more than she liked Ted' or 'She liked Bill more than Ted liked Bill' - and in this case it might be clearer to spell it out as in your example 2 (or as I just have).

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