比較判斷句

　　句型［主語+be+less表語A+than+表語B］/ ［主語+be+more表語B+than+表語A］

　　1. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

　　2. It is even more a picture than a poem.  3. He is more shy than (he is) unsocial.

　　4.  A river that carries so much silt per cubic meter (590 kilograms-over half a ton) is more like liquid land than water

　　[注1] more后面如果跟形容詞，形容詞要用原級，如：（正）He was more angry than frightened.

　　(誤) He was more angrier than frightened.  (誤) He was angrier than frightened.

　　[注2] 成語 "more dead than alive" (勞累已極、累得要死) 是一種夸張的說法，原意是"與其說還活著，不如說是死了。"如："Oliver, more dead than alive, could answer 'Yes'.

　　句型［主語+be+表語B+rather than+表語A］

　　1. He is an ordinary worker rather than a cadre.  2. He is rather diligent than clever.

　　3.  The patient was worse rather than better.  4. He is an artist rather than a philosopher.

　　句型［主語+be+not so much+表語A+as+表語B］

　　1. He is not so much a scholar as a writer. (not so much…as =less…than)

　　2. It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

　　3. It is not so much advice as approval that he seeks.

　　[注] 該句型也常用于行為動詞作謂語的句子中。如：A man's worth lies not so much in what he has as in what he is.

　　The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.

　　互斥判斷句

　　句型主語+be+(either)表語A+or+表語B］/［(Either)主語A+or+主語B +be+表語］

　　1. He or you are mistaken. You or he is mistaken.

　　2. He is at the office or at the workshop.  3. Either your brakes or your eyesight is at fault.

　　4.  It is wrong to regard our work either as totally good or as completely bad.

　　5.  Either he is right or I am. (=Either he or I am right.)

　　[注] 該句型可以采用簡易方式："If it is not…it is…" 如：if it is not taking the socialist road, it is taking the capitalist road.

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