Than --conjunction/preposition

Question

What better way to fix the problem than by upping the ante when it comes that are rich in these nutrients.Is this OK? Than is a preposition here right (although some aruge it is only a conjunction)?Google was telling me I should use then not than...Any reasons why this may be happening?Thanks

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

English 1b3by upping the ante when it comes that are rich in these nutrients.

Ungrammatical. I wonder what you are trying to say?

CB

English 1b3 · Answer

Hi CB

Could you please tell me how it is ungrammatical?

I read it in a magazine. It's not my writing.

Many thanks,

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Cool Breeze · Answer

English 1b3 I read it in a magazine. It's not my writing.

"What better way to fix the problem than by upping the ante when it comes that are rich in these nutrients."

As I said* I don't understand the sentence. Perhaps native speakers do.That cannot be a conjunction because it doesn't begin a subordinate clause, which would require a subject after that:

I know that he was there.
We understood that Mr Smith was right.
She told us that nothing had happened.

That cannot be a relative pronoun either even though it does appear to look like one as it is followed by a verb (are). However, it has no antecedent, i.e. it doesn't refer to anything. Are suggests that the antecedent is a plural word, yet there isn't a single plural noun in the sentence before that.

* I seem to be locked in BOLD!

CB

Mister Micawber · Answer

Shall I unlock you?

What may have been meant (without the typo or whatever else went wrong):

What better way to fix the problem when it comes than by upping the ante with foods that are rich in these nutrients.

English 1b3 · Answer

Apologies. i just re-read the sentence and found an error. It doesn't read properly as you say. Again, sorry.

It should just read as this:

What better way to fix the problem than by upping the ante.

And I was asking about than, not that.

Cheers

Cool Breeze · Answer

Mister MicawberShall I unlock you?

I'm okay, MrM. I was locked in bold in my previous reply only. That was because I quoted a sentence in bold, which forced me to write in bold after the quotation. I'm familiar with this minor bug in the text editor. It has occurred several times before.

CB

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