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Dear hivemind, an English question (I've been phrasing it back and forth for quite a few times now, so each of the option sounds wrong to me right now). Is it correct to say the following sentence? If not, how should I re-phrase it?
The larger X is, the better Y may be chosen.
Ta, ever so.
[Edit: oof, each way I write it seems wrong now.]
What does the "better" refer to? Is the act of choosing better, or is the Y better?
If you're saying that a bigger X will, say, give you more information and thus let you get Y closer to what you want it to be, then that construction is good.
Um, choosing a better Y means that Y is better, no? Silly brain. [Edit: obviously an x-post. Thanks, Hil!]
I'm taking a step back here: in general, how to phrase these sentences, of
"the blah-er X is, the blahblah-er Y (is?)"
The more embarassed you are, the redder your face is.
The larger the sample, the smaller the margin for error.
Wikepedia is going to be published as a hard cover. WTF?
Thanks, Jesse!
The larger the sample, the smaller the margin for error.
And there's no "is" there, like in your former example? Can you please define for me the difference between the two examples?
[Edit: So, either the two parts of the sentence have a "to be" verb, or both of them don't?] [Edited yet again because at first I wrote "the two sides of the equation".]
(Why, yes, my brain is at the point where all it can think about is "Computer bad. Sleep pretty". Sorry.)
Personally, I don't think X is blah enough anyway.
And there's no "is" there, like in your former example? Can you please define for me the difference between the two examples?
In both examples, the 'is' is optional. It's just whatever sounds better.
Wikepedia is going to be published as a hard cover. WTF?
In this case, WTF is short for "Why the Fuck?"