Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » as good or better than http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Quiz: Writing for business – as good or better than http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/quiz-writing-for-business-as-good-or-better-than/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/quiz-writing-for-business-as-good-or-better-than/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:21:59 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/quiz-writing-for-business-as-good-or-better-than/ balance-sheet.jpg Which is correct?
Performance in the third quarter is expected to be ___________ it was in the second quarter.
a. as good as or better than
b. as good or better than

Answer: a

Explanation:
The phrase as good or better than is ungrammatical because as good requires another as — you would never say something was as good than something else.

However, although it’s correct, as good as or better than is a little awkward. Here’s a better construction for this sentence: Performance in the third quarter is expected to be at least as good as it was in the second quarter.

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