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<li><p>Prior to closing an airplane's outer door, federal regulations require that all passengers be seated and have their seat belts fastened.</p></li>
<li><p>Federal regulations require that all passengers be seated and have their seat belts fastened before an airplane's outer door can be closed.</p></li>
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<p>Why is the first one wrong and the second one correct? </p>

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<li><p>[Contrasting the wealth of the business owners,] the poverty of the factory workers provoked a flood of scathing condemnations from journalists and politicians.</p></li>
<li><p>[The contrast between the wealth of the business owners and] the poverty of the factory workers provoked a flood of scathing condemnations from journalists and politicians.</p></li>
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<p>the second is correct. What are the correct idiomatic phrases of "Contrast" ? I'm kind of confused on its usage. In contrast with... in contrast to... contrast with... etc... and apparently contrast between also works? Is "contrasting" even an appropriate form of contrast? :(</p>

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1. According to no [less of an authority than was] than Parkman,
2. According to no [less of an authority than] Parkman,
3. According to no [less an authority than] Parkman,</p>

<p>Okay. I know that More/Less..... than is the appropriate idiomatic expression. is less of...than or more of... also acceptable? The first sentence is wrong obviously, and the 3rd one is correct. Would the 2nd one be correct as well? </p>

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<p>-federal regulations don’t have limbs (not corporeal ones anyway) to close airplane doors</p>

<p>-dangling modifier; poverty is an abstract idea and can’t contrast anything by itself
contrast as a noun fits</p>

<p>idiomatic use of contrast as a verb, like use of any other verb, requires a performer: "I contrasted the green apple and the red apple and chose to eat the green one (most would say compare but contrast works too</p>

<p>contrasting A and B, I</p>

<p>Having contrasted A and B, John</p>

<p>-I can’t see any faults in the 2nd except that it contains an extra word. “You are no less of a person than someone who aced the SATs.”</p>

<p>time is drawing tight for october takers, eh?</p>