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When more is an adverb , no more ... than has special implications.
Consider:
[3] Rachel is no more courageous than Saul .
The sentence implies that both Rachel and Saul are not courageous . Here are some further examples:
[4] Tom is no more athletic than he ever was. [‘Tom is not athletic, any more than he ever was athletic’]
[5] I can no more apologize than I could kneel to them.
[6] I would no more think of hitting a student than I would a policeman.
No more ... than has the same meaning when more modifies a tradable noun:
[7] She is no more a fool than you . [‘She is not a fool, any more than you are’, ‘She is not more foolish...’]
[8] They are no more scholars than my baby . [‘They are no more scholarly ...’]
The rhetorical effect of the construction is not so much to make a comparison as to intensify the negation. That effect is most obvious when the comparison is absurd.
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This idea is no more creative than that one. This sentence means that:
A. Both the ideas are creative.
B. This idea is less creative than that one.
C. Both the ideas arent creative.
D. The idea is as creative as that one.
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It doesnt really mean any of those options. It means what it says.
This idea is no more creative than that one.
This new idea is not any more creative than the old one.
The old idea is creative. So is the new one -- but its no more creative. Theres nothing to choose between them
Ó¢¹úÂ×¶ØJimbo_Disco:
It doesnt necessarily mean that neither is creative -- it just means that they are both on an equal level of creativity -- they could both be extraordinary creative, or they could be averagely ceative, or not at all creative.
ÃÀ¹ú¶«±±²¿Roxxxannne:
The difference between
A) these ideas are on an equal level of creativity and
B) this idea is no more creative than that one is often in the context on which they are used.
B is a negation of the implied comparison that this idea is more creative than that one.
The same is true for shes no slimmer than I was at her age. This is a negation of the implied comparison that she is more slim than I was at her age.
Both sentences mean the same thing: these ideas or our bodies are equally creative or equally slim, as others have said.
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[11] Drinking juice is no better than drinking soda.
[12] Drinking juice is not better than drinking soda.
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Saying Drinking juice is no better than drinking soda makes perfect sense when you are saying that soda quenches thirst just as well as juice does.
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Both sentences deny that drinking juice might be better than drinking soda, so both may express the same objective reality.
But there is a difference of nuance: Not better compares reality to better and says it is not so, that drinking juice may be worse than or equally as good as drinking soda, but no better compares reality to much better or a little better and is not really concerned about better compared to worse.
The difference in nuance is the same whether no/not better means no/not better for quenching thirst, no better an idea/not a better idea, no/not better nutritionally, or something else.
The sentences can of course be used ironically, sarcastically, or whatever, but that has to be determined from the context and tone of voice. It is not apparent in the wording of either sentence.
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[3] Rachel is no more courageous than Saul .
The sentence implies that both Rachel and Saul are not courageous .
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No, it doesnt - it simply implies that Rachel and Saul are on an equal level of courageousness, which could be anything from extremely courageous to not courageous at all. Sometimes the problem with grammar books is that they dont always reflect actual contemporary usage of the language! Often with English there is a huge difference between what is grammatically correct and idiomatically correct, which must be so annoying for learners!
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15.70 When more is a determinative or a head of a noun phrase - functions and
in 15.69 - the unit no more than is synonymous with only as many
as in countable contexts or with only as much as in noncountable
contexts :
Paul has no more friends than I have. [. . . only as many as. . .]
I have no more money than you have. [ . . . only as much as. . .]
Ted got no more than he needed. [ . . . only as many
as . . .]
She said no more than we expected. [ . . . only as much as. . .]
But when more is an adverb , as in the
other function types in 15.69, no more . . . than has special implications.
Consider:
Rachel is no more courageous than Saul .
The sentence implies that both Rachel and Saul are not courageous . Here are some further
examples :
Tom is no more athletic than he ever was. [Tom is not athletic, any
more than he ever was athletic.]
I can no more apologize than I could kneel to them.
I would no more think of hitting a student than I would a policeman.
No more. . . than has the same meaning when more modifies a gradable noun:
She is no more a fool than you . [She is not a fool, any more than
you are, She is not more foolish . . .]
They are np more scholars than my,pby . [They are no more
scholarly. . .]
The rhetorical effect of the construction is not so much to make a comparison
as to intensify the negation. That effect is most obvious when the comparison
is absurd :
Hes no mbre your friend than Im your mother.
Not any more than is an emphatic variant of no more . . . than:
Paul hasnt any more friends than I have. [only as many as. . .]
Rachel isnt any more courageous than Saul . [Rachel isnt
courageous, any more than . . .]
Not more . . . than, on the other hand, is different from both no more. . . than
and not any more . . . than when more is an adverb or modifies a gradable
Rachel is not more courageous than Saul .
This last sentence allows for the possibility that Rachel is less courageous
than Saul. It may also be merely a denial sentence in response to Rachel is
more courageous than Saul .
Similar distinctions apply to no Iess than, not any less than, and
not less than, except that the double negative is less common and as a
consequence the distinctions are somewhat blurred.
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