compare to and compare with

tyou

found a sentence in  800 score  in CR section

A) Compared to other types of home fires, home fires caused by smoking in bed usually cause relatively little damage before they are extinguished.

How do understand compare to here ?

mzyzhu

首先comapre A to B,将A比作B. 来一句沙翁的话拽一下：shall I comapre thee(古语you) to a summer's day, Shakespeare. compare A with B. 将A与B比较。

因此，800score的这句话是一个典型的comapre to 的误用。

类似的错误还发生在ETS自己赚些的考题里。下面这句话好像是GMAT阅读还是逻辑里的一句话：comparing the severity of crash in country T to the severity of crash in countries otherwise economically similar to country T that have not experienced recent denationlization

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-24 20:14:37编辑过]