Más que & Más de

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by laepelba

<-- When you say "has meaning", do you mean contains a complete subject/action meaning (even if the subject is implied and not necessarily stated...?
<-- So "ellipsed" is like when I said "understood"? It's not written/said as part of the sentence, but it's understood to be there?
....

OK - a finite verb form is a form which has the 5 attributes of mood, tense, voice, person and number. i.e. any form which you would regard as having meaning in itself. This is in contrast to non-finite verb forms which include past participle on its own; gerund; and of course the infinitive.

Example: This time tomorrow, I will have been shot. The bold is a finite verb form: 1st; sing; indicative; future perfect; passive. 5 attributes. verb: to shoot

Example: be nice 2nd; sing.; imperative; present; active, of the verb to be (or it could also be 2nd plural etc.)

and so on.

"ellipsed" is like when I said "understood"? Yes.

Originally Posted by pjt33

Comparisons against constants also use de. Peso más de 70 kilos.

@pjt gives an example which is an exception to the general rule which we were droning on about.

Does that help? We are in danger of doing this to death.