as * as + mine | yours – English Grammar Profiler
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 63 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as:
possessive pronouns ‘mine’ and ‘yours’, with singular reference, in comparative clauses after ‘(not) as … as’.
*The following example does not have a singular reference, and the use of ‘yours’ is A2 in the English Vocabulary Profile.
They‘re not as complicated as yours. They‘re very simple.
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* as * as mine|yours
1 IS AS GOOD AS MINE 1166 2 , AS WELL AS YOURS 92 3 IS AS GOOD AS YOURS 90 4 , AS WELL AS MINE 89 5 LOOK AS GOOD AS YOURS 89 6 NOT AS GOOD AS YOURS 86 7 IT AS MUCH AS MINE 69 8 HALF AS GOOD AS YOURS 65 9 IS AS GREAT AS YOURS 65
10 IS AS LARGE AS YOURS 64
I have seldom seen companies as large as yours.
11 NOT AS BAD AS YOURS 54 12 UP AS FAST AS YOURS 50 13 BE AS GOOD AS MINE 48
14 UP AS QUICKLY AS YOURS 47
15 BE AS GOOD AS YOURS 44
16 NOT AS PRETTY AS YOURS 42
17 LOOK AS PRETTY AS YOURS 40
18 OUT AS GOOD AS YOURS 35
19 NEARLY AS GOOD AS YOURS 34 20 THEM AS MUCH AS MINE 34
21 JUST AS GOOD AS YOURS 33
22 JUST AS VALID AS MINE 31
I wouldn’t claim to always have it right, and your opinion is just as valid as mine.
destructoid.com
23 NOT AS GOOD AS MINE 30
24 OUT AS PRETTY AS YOURS 30 (turn out = B2)
25 ARE AS GOOD AS MINE 29 26 IS AS BAD AS MINE 29 27 LOOK AS NICE AS YOURS 29
28 JUST AS MUCH AS YOURS 28
29 JUST AS MUCH AS MINE 27
30 JUST AS VALID AS YOURS 27
31 OUT AS NICE AS YOURS 27 32 LOOKS AS GOOD AS YOURS 25 33 ( AS WELL AS MINE 24 34 ARE AS GOOD AS YOURS 23
35 N’T AS GOOD AS YOURS 23
36 NEARLY AS PRETTY AS YOURS 23 (not nearly as … C1)
38 NOT AS SEVERE AS YOURS 23
39 OUT AS WELL AS YOURS 23
40 JUST AS IMPORTANT AS MINE 22
41 TWICE AS FAST AS YOURS 22 42 NEAR AS BAD AS YOURS 21 43 NOT AS MUCH AS YOURS 21 44 HALF AS NICE AS YOURS 20
45 JUST AS IMPORTANT AS YOURS 20
46 NEAR AS GOOD AS YOURS 20 47 NOT AS BIG AS YOURS 19 48 SAKE AS WELL AS MINE 19 49 IS AS VALID AS YOURS 18 50 LAST AS LONG AS MINE 18
51 QUITE AS PRETTY AS YOURS 18
52 ALMOST AS GOOD AS MINE 17 53 ( AS WELL AS YOURS 15 54 LOOK AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOURS 15
55 NEARLY AS BAD AS YOURS 15
56 OUT AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOURS 15
57 QUITE AS BAD AS YOURS 15 58 WAS AS GOOD AS YOURS 15 59 IS AS VALID AS MINE 14
60 JUST AS BAD AS MINE 14
61 JUST AS VALUABLE AS YOURS 14
My Time Is Just As Valuable As Yours.
medium.com
62 N’T AS BAD AS YOURS 14 63 N’T AS GOOD AS MINE 14 64 NEAR AS NICE AS YOURS 14
65 NEARLY AS NICE AS YOURS 14
66 TIME AS WELL AS YOURS 14 67 WAS AS GOOD AS MINE 14 68 BE AS BAD AS MINE 13
69 JUST AS GOOD AS MINE 13
70 LOOK AS GOOD AS MINE 13 71 LOOK AS GREAT AS YOURS 13 72 NEEDS AS WELL AS YOURS 13 73 NOT AS GREAT AS YOURS 13
74 NOT AS HIGH AS YOURS 13
75 THIS AS MUCH AS MINE 13 76 LAST AS LONG AS YOURS 12
77 NEAR AS PRETTY AS YOURS 12
78 NOT AS BAD AS MINE 12
79 PROBABLY AS GOOD AS MINE 12
80 QUITE AS GOOD AS YOURS 12 81 ‘S AS GOOD AS YOURS 11 82 IS AS BIG AS MINE 11 83 LOOKS AS GOOD AS MINE 11 84 RISE AS MUCH AS YOURS 11
85 SOUND AS BAD AS YOURS 11
86 ‘S AS GOOD AS MINE 10
87 ALMOST AS BIG AS MINE 10
88 HALF AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOURS 10 89 NOT AS BIG AS MINE 10 90 NOT AS DETAILED AS YOURS 10
91 OUT AS GREAT AS YOURS 10
92 TWICE AS LONG AS MINE 10 93 WERE AS GOOD AS YOURS 10 94 , AS MUCH AS YOURS 9
95 ACTIVITY AS MUCH AS MINE 9
96 BE AS GREAT AS YOURS 9 97 IS AS VALUABLE AS YOURS 9 98 IT AS WELL AS MINE 9
99 LEAST AS GOOD AS MINE 9
100 LIFE AS WELL AS MINE 9
A2 Vocabulary:
activity, almost, high, just, large, least, mine, nearly, out, pretty, probably, quickly, quite, sound, twice, yours
B1: rise, valuable