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Subject: "as many as" usage!
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Hi,
I guess its an ESL issue, Im taking the GRE, and one question in the
quantitative part was:
"twice as many boys as girls earned ..."
I interpreted it as the number of girls is twice the number of boys, but it
turns out it is the other way around!
I tried to search online (google) for some tutorial for "as many as", but
found none; do you have any links for such tutorial? or if anyone can help
explaining how "as many as" can be used in different situations, and what it
means every time, it is very confusing to me.
thx in advance!
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