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Bookmark or Share- the weight is high or heavy | WordReference ForumsHello everyone, How to describe "the weight and pressure" as in the sentence below, higher or heavier? "Deep under the water it is cold and black. The weight or pressure on your body is much __________ than that at the surface." Can high or heavy modify both weight and presure ? Thanks a lot.
- two pounds < heavier / more heavy > than I am - WordReference Forums"Heavier" and "more heavy" are both okay here. I prefer "heavier". "Longer" is generally preferable to "more long". If you mean can you use "two pounds more than I am", that would also be okay. "Two centimetres more" would be confusing.
- It rained heavier/more heavily - WordReference ForumsMy observation would be that we (in the US, at least) in fact use "heavier" to modify a verb fairly often, but that we tend to do so in informal situations (spontaneous conversation), where grammatical rules are generally looser. In writing I might well disapprove of using "heavier" that way, and I might well find "more heavily" completely natural.
- twice heavier than...=twice as heavy as...? - WordReference ForumsYou may well get redirected to this thread!Your big fish is "three times as heavy as the little one". Some people say "This one is X times heavier than that one" but that is ambiguous - different people understand it differently (and argue about which is correct), so don't use it!
- twice heavier than=twice as heavy as - WordReference ForumsHello everyone, Suppose I have two boxes, A and B. A weighs 5 pounds and B 10 pounds. In comparing the weight of A and B, which of the following sentences do you think are correct? B is twice as heavy as A. B is twice heavier than B. B weighs twice as much as A. B weighs twice more than A...
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