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Bookmark or Share- "Much more easy" versus "much easier" - English Language & Usage Stack ...My mom and I are having a dispute on much more easy versus much easier. For example, consider the sentence: It's [much more easy]/[much easier] to do action X than action Y.
- "Simpler" or "More Simple" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeIt is simpler to use simpler when you want to express that one thing is simpler than something else.. Simpler is a word that is in use for this very purpose, so don't waste your breath, ink or electricity with more simple.
- Conundrum: "cleverer" or "more clever", "simpler" or "more simple" etcMeanwhile, TFD insists that the comparative and superlative form of simple is simpler and simplest. Google seems to concur and produces 17 pages for “it is simpler” compared to only 9 pages for “it is more simple”. The two-syllable adjectives that I am aware of, which have both kinds of comparative and superlative forms are:
- "Much more simple" or "much more simpler" [closed]Much simpler or much more simple. One or the other, not both. – John Lawler. Commented Oct 7, 2013 at 16 ...
- simpler? more simple? - WordReference Forums"Simpler" is probably more widely used. I think for both the comparative and the superlative it depends on how it sounds and how it's pronounced. For example, I would use "more fun" never "funner", but I could see myself using "funnest" or "most fun".
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