more so than any other party...

[navi tasan]

Are these sentences correct:
1) We supported them, more than any other party in the country.
2) We supported them, more so than any other party in the country.

Can't they mean two things:
a) We supported them, more than any other party in the country did.
b) We supported them, more than we supported any other party in the country.

Gratefully,
Navi.

 

[Tarheel]

I'm not sure what your comma is for.

A: We supported them more.
B: You supported them more than what?
A: Who. Not what. We supported them more than we supported any other party.
B: But you didn't support anybody else, did you?
A: Exactly! So we definitely supported them more.
B: Whatever.

 

[Tarheel]

Two things.

1. Context matters.
2. There is always a context.
3. Either of your interpretations could be correct depending on the context.

OK, three things.

(I don't see why you need the second sentence, but there could be a valid reason for it I suppose.)

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you very much, Tarheel,

I think the comma could mark an afterthought or give the sentence a double focus.

You did not support them at all.
- What? That's a blatant lie. We supported them, more so than any other party in the country.


We supported them. What's more, we supported them more than any other party in the country.

I am not sure 'more so' works there though. That was one of my problems. The 'so' does not add anything to the sentence. It does not replace an adjective...

A) He was kind. More so than anyone else I knew.


The 'more so' in 'A' makes sense to me and could not be replaced with 'more. The 'more so' in '2' does not make sense to me, but I have heard people say things like that.

Gratefully,
Navi.

 

[GoesStation]

"So" doesn't belong in either sentence.

 

[Raymott]

Can you expand?
Do you think 'more so' is wrong in this sentence?: "He was kind - more so than anyone else I knew."
I believe it is correct.

 

[Tdol]

More so works in BrE.

 

[GoesStation]

Can you expand?
Do you think 'more so' is wrong in this sentence?: "He was kind - more so than anyone else I knew."
I believe it is correct.

You're right. Sorry I misled you.

 

[Tdol]

Screen-blindness affects us all. Something that seemed right one day may seem less so the next. :up: