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Bookmark or Share- "More clear" vs "Clearer": when to use "more" instead of "-er"?That's the confusing one. I believe it is correct to say that "I see more clearly now that I've wiped my windshield", and incorrect to say "I see clearer now that I've wiped my windshield." The problem is that comparative adverbs like "better" make you think that "clearer" is the correct comparative adverbial form.
- Conundrum: "cleverer" or "more clever", "simpler" or "more simple" etcAccording to Swan in Pratical English Usage (p114) the two-syllable adjectives whose comparative form is most likely to be formed with -er are those that end with an unstressed vowel; e.g. narrow, simple, clever, subtle, etc. from your list above.
- literature - Dickens: meaning of “preserves” in “preserves of loaves ...There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
- etymology - "Cooler heads prevail" origin? - English Language & Usage ...Antecedents of "cooler heads prevailed" go back at least to the early 1800s. For example, in a speech by the chancellor of the exchequer in connection with allegations of corruption involving the Duke of York, from "British and Foreign History for the Year 1809," chapter 2, in The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History (July 1810):
- How to add contextualizing text to a quotation?Well, I hate to disagree with everyone here, but the way you have used it is not quite right. When inserting or altering words in quoted text, the insertion or alteration should replace the quoted word like a seamless patch in the sentence.
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