求解og11-77

funnytigers

Even though the direct costs of malpractice diputes amounts of a sum lower than 1 percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-care inflation.

 

C. amounted to less

 

D. amounted to lower

 

og解释是：The sentence does reqiure a noun (less), not an adjective (lower), as the object of the preposition to.

 

请问less和lower的区别都是依据这个判断么？在意思上如何区别？

 

前人问过的问题，可是我对解释不认可。希望NN能提供更确切的区分解释，谢谢!

 

JJJooe

amount to后面只能接名词的...fewer只是个adj

只有less还有名词的用法啦

mandyuuqq

amount to 的to 是Prep. 所以后面要跟名词. less在这里是名词. 

注意, less的用法, 它既可以做n.adj. 也可以做adv. 在gamt中考点很活.

mayleilas

costs less than 1% of ...

$111 lower than ...

carollai

QUOTE:

Lower是形容词,是长度,高度的概念.
后面是数字,要求用less修饰。如; 修饰时间，数量和距离等的复数名词前用less.如 less than three weeks, less than four hundred dollars, less than fifty meters.
By 1977, the USA was importing no less than 45% of its oil.
OG说这里要求noun,但我觉得这里less应该是pronoun

以上是前人的解释。

本人觉得og说less是名词显然是错的。less than 1 percent of结构，less做形容词，percent是名词，less修饰percent。

此外，不同意三楼的解释。

QUOTE:

Lower是形容词,是长度,高度的概念.

og11-100t

Bihar is India's poorest state, with an annual per capita income of $111, lower than in the most impoverished countries of the world.

B. lower than that of

这里的lower就是修饰的income,income不是高度长度。我认为这纯属是修饰习惯的问题。

此外，不同意三楼的解释。

QUOTE:

Lower是形容词,是长度,高度的概念.

og11-100t

Bihar is India's poorest state, with an annual per capita income of $111, lower than in the most impoverished countries of the world.

B. lower than that of

这里的lower就是修饰的income,income不是高度长度。我认为这纯属是修饰习惯的问题。