Hello everyone:
Three members of the family are acquitted, one member happens to be a little more than a child.
Source: Google books
Shouldn't “a little more than a child” in the sentence above be “little more than a child?”
According to A practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomas and A.V. Martinet, LITTLE is used chiefly with BETTER and MORE in fairly formal style:
Example:
He was little more than a child when his father died.
Thanks.
Three members of the family are acquitted, one member happens to be a little more than a child.
Source: Google books
Shouldn't “a little more than a child” in the sentence above be “little more than a child?”
According to A practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomas and A.V. Martinet, LITTLE is used chiefly with BETTER and MORE in fairly formal style:
Example:
He was little more than a child when his father died.
Thanks.