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Expert: Debra Duenas - 9/29/2008
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Hey again,
this question is on the SAT OG book page 661 # 29
The dolls in the collection, [all] [more than] two hundred years old, had been [carefully] carved for children [long since] gone.
Why isn't [long since] wrong? And can you please explain the usage of [more than]? When can it be used and when is it wrong?
Thanks in advance
Answer
More than just means greater than...
The dolls are more than two hundred years old, there are more than two hundred sheep in the field, I have more than two hundred stamps in my collection.
Long since gone is an older English but correct. It's the prescription again, we don't really talk like that but its useful for writing poetry.
What would our options be here? Children long dead...not very poetic sounding. As ancient British as it sounds...yup...correct.
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