Timeline for Parallel Structure: negative comparative

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S Dec 2, 2015 at 21:38	history	suggested	macraf	CC BY-SA 3.0	improved formatting
Dec 2, 2015 at 21:07	review	Suggested edits
S Dec 2, 2015 at 21:38
Feb 5, 2015 at 8:39	answer	added	Sven Yargs		timeline score: 1
Dec 18, 2014 at 19:00	comment	added	John Lawler		@user87755: The parallelism is not at issue; they are indeed parallel. The problem is that both clauses are ambiguous. The first one could continue "Rather, Frank will be honored for his skills at ping-pong." Or it could continue; "Rather, Frank will not receive any honors at all." Those correspond to two different ways of understanding ("readings") of that clause; and the other clause has the same structure and similar ambiguities. Since they're conjoined and compared, they both have to have the same reading; but that still means it's too complicated to evaluate.
Dec 16, 2014 at 19:55	comment	added	Barmar		You can also use much as to suggest parallism.
Dec 15, 2014 at 3:52	review	Close votes
Dec 15, 2014 at 15:41
Dec 14, 2014 at 21:58	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		'As' also has the meaning 'because', which works here (allowing for suitable context). 'Just as' removes the ambiguity.
Dec 14, 2014 at 20:43	comment	added	StoneyB on hiatus		It's fine, though it might be better to rewrite as as just as to preclude the reading because.
Dec 14, 2014 at 20:16	history	asked	user87755	CC BY-SA 3.0