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Bookmark or Share- Comparative, superlative: often | WordReference ForumsThat's not true. The general rule is that you add -er and -est if the adjective/adverb consists of one syllable (faster, fastest; quicker, quickest; bigger, biggest; fatter, fattest) or is a two-syllable adjective ending in y (happier, happiest; funnier, funniest; rowdier, rowdiest).
- comparing it against/with - WordReference ForumsThe following is from an English exercise given by my son's teacher. 40% of lizard species worldwide could be extinct by 2080. Barry Sinerro reached the conclusion by taking current data on Mexican lizards and comparing it against extinction modelling and projected risks worldwide. Can...
- compare [A with B] vs compare A [with B] - WordReference ForumsHi there. I met a question in the English exam paper of the 2023 Senior High School Entrance Exam in Qingdao province, China. Use the right form of the word given in the bracket to fill the sentence. 44. We shouldn't compare our clothes or shoes with our _______ (classmate)...
- indicate the cohort against which you are assessing the applicantIf you say on the form "I think Fred is a very good candidate", you are inevitably comparing Fred to somebody else or some other people, and you are probably not comparing him to the children at your child's infant school!
- braver/more brave - WordReference ForumsYou can use "braver," but I imagine they used "more brave of heart" because "brave of heart" is an expression all its own, so they didn't want to disrupt that.
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