In court, the better the evidence the more weight it is given. What does it actually refer to?
Does it refer to nothing?, is that what you called it in the other thread as a "matrix clause" It does not tell you who gives the weight and to whom the weight is given
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Hi, Tony,
@Tony C posted:In court, the better the evidence, the more weight it is given.
The sentence above is called a parallel comparative construction (there should be a comma to separate its two members). It can be expanded as follows:
- The better the evidence is, the more weight the evidence is given.
It can be paraphrased as follows:
- As the quality of the evidence increases, so does the importance that the court attaches to it (in other words: the court will attach more importance to the evidence if the quality of the evidence is higher).
I got you, it is a degree of comparison, it's like
The more money you have, the greater amount of food you will consume. Whereas matrix clause, it does not compare anything.
