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grammaire anglaise > déterminants + N > quantificateurcomparateur
quantificateurscomparateurs + N > more ≠ less
more + N / Groupe Adverbial / Ø
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less + N / Groupe Adverbial / Ø
The Guardian p.18 25 September 2004
Bob Englehart Cagle 18 January 2005
The Guardian p. 24 11 October 2004
The Guardian p.26 27 September 2004
We can now offer you more performance, more service and more options in more than 220 countries. DHL ad, We move the world, 5.2003.
Zimbabwean police officers detained more than 140 white farmers at the week-end for defying a government deadline to vacate their land and homes. Millions hear wear weary Pope warn against ‘playing God’, GE, p. 9, 19.8.2002.
less + adverbe
In a move likely to alter treatment standards in hospitals and doctors’ offices nationwide, a group of nine medical specialty boards plans to recommend on Wednesday that doctors perform 45 common tests and procedures less often, and to urge patients to question these services if they are offered. Eight other specialty boards are preparing to follow suit with additional lists of procedures their members should perform far less often.
Doctor Panels Recommend Fewer Tests for Patients, NYT, 4.4.2012,
lessforme nominale
I earn less than my colleagues
The Guardian p. 10 7 February 2006
I earn less than my colleagues
On peut analyser cet énoncé de deux manières :
1 - less détermine un nom sous-entendu (money).
2 - less est une forme nominale.
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