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Bookmark or Share- adjectives - Smaller vs. less vs. lesser - English Language & Usage ...Smaller. Smaller is the relative adjective (or sometimes adverb or noun) of small, indicating that referenced term it has more of the characteristic of smallness. I ordered the smaller of the two cup sizes offered. When using small, no other size needs to be explicitly considered.
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?@WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.
- word usage - The number is smaller, fewer or less than? - English ...The number of students this year is smaller than the number of students last year; I know that fewer is used for countables (e.g. "I have fewer children than my friend", or "I have fewer cars than a billionaire would have"), while less for uncountable (e.g. "I have less money than my friend"). Am I correct on this?
- word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange(1) A millimeter is ten times smaller than a centimeter. (2) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 10. (3) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 0.1. (4) My car is lighter than your car by a factor of x. Of 1-3, I think 1 is the best style and is fine mathematically. 2 and 3 show that there's a potential ...
- grammaticality - The bigger, the smaller and the greater - English ...It should also be noted that the bigger the measured distances, the smaller the variability and the greater the accuracy. Or should it be instead be written this way, with “extra” verbs: It should also be noted that the bigger the measured distances are, the smaller the variability is and the greater the accuracy is.
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