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Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same... #1 (permalink) Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:40 am   Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same...
 

"The two girls had been close since college and shared the same tastes and opinions on most matters. Yet when it came to the subject of love, it would be hard to find two more dissimilar viewpoints"

On the last sentence when the narrator said 'two more', is he referring about those 2 girls had a viewpoint SO different that it's impossible to find another 2 of such dissimilar viewpoints...?
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Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same... #2 (permalink) Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:44 am   Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same...
 

Hi Aikuzo,

'More dissimilar' is a colloquial use because either something is dissimilar or it isn't. The use of 'more' is to emphasise the idea that their opinions are very different from one another.

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Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same... #3 (permalink) Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:49 am   Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same...
 

"it would be hard to find two more dissimilar viewpoints"

But on this one, when the narrator said "two more", does he mean here two more different people (that also has the same dissimilar viewpoint) that is hard to find?
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Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same... #4 (permalink) Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:05 am   Sentence: The two girls had been close since college and shared the same...
 

Aikuzo wrote:
"it would be hard to find two more dissimilar viewpoints"

But on this one, when the narrator said "two more", does he mean here two more different people (that also has the same dissimilar viewpoint) that is hard to find?


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