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Unread 02-23-2016, 04:45 AM
Brian Allgar Brian Allgar is offline
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A "pet peeve" of mine: the superfluous and ungrammatical "as" used by people who are incapable of distinguishing between two different constructions:

xxI am not as big as he is

xxxxand

xxBig as I am, he is bigger

and who, in the second case, insist on writing

xxAs big as I am, he is bigger.

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