【问】 Film directors can take far great liberties in dealing with concepts of time and spacethan stage directors can. (TOEFL，88.10)

请分析句中错误。

【答】 我们从than从句可以看出，形容词great应当改为比较级形式(greater)，另外，我们从句中的副词far也可以看出这一点，因为far可用于修饰形容词或副词的比较级或最高级，以加强其程度，但一般不用于修饰可分等级的形容词的原级，故上句中的far great应改为far greater。类例：

1. The food was far better than I expected. (CGEL)

食物比我想象的好得多。

2. There were a number of people out this afternoon，far more than last Sunday. (Mans-field)

今天下午许多人都出去了，远比上周日多得多。

3. That was a far easier job. (CGEL)

那是个容易得多的工作。

4. You have in the proper sense far more imagination than I have. (Yeats)

按本来的意义上说，你的想象力比我丰富得多。

另外，far亦可用来修饰too：

1. “Are you going to the football game?”

“No，the tickets are____expensive for me.”

A. very much B. so much

C. far too D. highly(TOEFL，71.6;72. 3)

2. The lights were far too brilliant. (Du Maurier)

灯光太亮了。