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4.7.3: American English Lesson
Everyday Grammar, ‘Comparatives’
As I understand that, ‘Comparative words are used to compare two things, people or situation. When we need to compare two things, we can use comparative adjectives, so we generally add the suffix,” –er” to an adjective to show the difference between two things and this only works for adjectives that have one or two syllables. We would not be able to say, ‘my daughter is beautifier than my niece’. In that case we will add the adjective, ‘ more’ before the object of comparison. We would say,’ my daughter is more beautiful than my niece’
we just remember that comparative sentences typically follow this pattern.
Noun / verb+ comparative form of adjective/verb + than noun/verb.
Examples:
She is taller than her sister.
He runs faster than his friend.
This cake is sweeter than the one we had yesterday.