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Creativeguru Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Please explain

Any serious contemporary would be delighted to have her compositions compared with Philip Glass.

(why compositions can not be compared to a person)
  

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Hi, Any serious contemporary would be delighted to have her compositions compared with Philip Glass. (why compositions can not be compared to a person) Because they are not similar enough to make a comparison a sensiible thing to attempt. What would you say?

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Hi,

Any serious contemporary would be delighted to have her compositions compared with Philip Glass.

(why compositions can not be compared to a person)

Because they are not similar enough to make a comparison a sensiible thing to attempt. What would you say?

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ClivePhilip Glass has brown eyes and a beard.
No beard!

CJ

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CreativeguruAny serious contemporary would be delighted ...
Grammar aside, I find this hard to believe!

CJ
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Hi,

He shaved.Emotion: wink

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I was just going through an online grammar test, and this sentence is one of them.
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