prepositions
He is senior to and older than I.
His dress is different from and cheaper than mine.
She is younger and taller than her sister.
In the first two sentences we have used two preposition after the required words. So, why had we not followed the same rule for the last sentence?
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We don't use a preposition with these words:
and with words today, tomorrow, yesterday!
Consider the usage of "in" vs "at" with the word "theater":
In the theater here refers to the building (the theater itself). In British English, At the theater means attending a performance. However, both prepositional forms, at and in are regularly found, but in is more common with the generic term theater and at with a specific theater name.
The verb want can be used in several ways. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the relevant options for these contexts are
I want some chocolate [+ noun]
I want to eat [+ to + verb infinitive]
I want you to eat [+ object + to + verb infinitive]
I want it sent [+object + past participle]
Thus, each student defines how he or she wants his or her stay at the residence hall to be like and adapts it to his or her needs
The object is stay, which in this context is a noun, so no to is required.
She wants revenge
The object is revenge which can only be a noun, so no to is required. The corresponding verb is avenge.
She wants me dead
The object is me, and dead is a participle that the speaker wants invoked on the object. No to is required for a past participle.
She wants me to be dead
The verb be is a verb infinitive and does require to. This is not a natural sentence, and most speakers would use the participle version. It would be completely natural if the participle were replaced by a normal adjective:
She wants me to be nice
Best Answer
Comparative adjectives require a than before the thing that we are comparing with. The words younger and taller are both comparative adjectives, and we need to use than after them.
Senior can have a meaning similar to older. However, it's not a comparative adjective. The comparative construction for senior is more senior than. The normal adjective senior takes a preposition phrase headed by to:
Different is also not a comparative adjective in the grammatical sense - although we do use it to compare things. When we use it on its own, it takes a preposition phrase headed by from, or occasionally to. Notice that different doesn't mean more different. If we use a comparative like this, then like with the other comparatives, we need the preposition than:
If we use different adjectives in one sentence then we need to use the correct preposition for each adjective. If the adjectives take the same preposition then we can sometimes omit the first preposition: