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[mings]

Please help me analyse the sentence.

" Noise pollution generally receives less attention than does air pollution."

The thing I don't understand is that "does" is used. Please show the full sentence.

Thanks a lot.

[Bob S.]

[stellara]

i think you could let go the "does" but it compounds the meaning a little.

if you phrase the sentence further you can say: "noise pollution generally receives less attention than air pollution receives" (the second "receives" is left out because it would be a repetition. you can't have no verb so you use the auxiliary verb form "does")

although i'd say "noise pollution generally receives less attention than air pollution does" ..
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[mings]

I'm confused because of the wrong sentence.
Thank you for your kind help.

[iitimone7]

...you could also move does to the end of the sentence.

"...air pollution does."