Useful Rules and Examples

So let’s just go through some examples and I’m going to include less than here.

We’ve been talking about more than and her right.

But we can include less a.

Then as well.

And it follows the same basic rules.

If you wanted to say more beautiful then you could also say less beautiful then.

But what if we want to then say the opposite with R.

Well then you have to change the adjective if you want to say less beautiful then it might be better if you just say uglier than ugly ugly or uglier than right.

It’s the same thing less beautiful then may be the same as uglier then.

So it follows the same basic rules same basic rules we just use less instead of more.

Or choose an opposite adjective an opposite adjective and had e r let’s go through some basic examples.

Is there anything more beautiful than a sunset.

Is there anything more beautiful than a sunset sunset is when the sun goes down.

This is a rhetorical question.

That means you don’t need to answer the question.

I’m just saying it.

Is there anything more beautiful than than a sunset.

Learning English is more interesting than I thought.

So here we’re not comparing two things exactly right.

More interesting than I thought were comparing sort of an opinion about something now to an opinion about something in the past like me now and me in the past.

This as I sort of see it and as I experience it is much more interesting than me back then and how I felt about it then learning English.

So this is sort of like the noun.

Learning English is more interesting than I thought.

This is an hour.

It doesn’t say Mo’s hit my r’s sometimes look like S’s.

This hospital is much less professional than my usual one.

We could say usual hospital but it’s not necessary because the last thing that we said Well at least the topic the thing we’re talking about is hospital.

And so when we say one we know it’s about hospital then my usual hospital than my usual one.

So one can often replace a noun.

OK.

Now here’s an interesting exception where we have a special word that we can use which is the opposite of better.

All right.

If this hospital is better this hospital is better than my usual one.

That’s easy right.

E.R.

You have a special word we don’t say more good.

We don’t say more better we just say better could say my usual hospital is better than this one.

So one simple way to express the opposite is to just reverse the order of the things instead of saying this hospital is less professional.

Right.

We could just say my usual hospital is much better than this one.

OK.

Or much more professional.

Of course that’s also something we could do.

But what if we want to say the same thing and instead we want to use E.R.

Well here is where we have a special exception.

We have this special word worse worse as a special one this hospital is much worse is much worse than my usual one is much worse than my usual one.

So that’s the opposite word to use and it’s a special case we don’t add E.R.

We don’t say worser.

Couple more examples you’re cooler than you were last year.

You’re cooler than you were last year.

So again this is not two things but it kind of is.

Except it’s two people but it’s not really two people although it kind of is because it’s about two different times.

This is person A maybe in two thousand and nine and this is person A in two thousand and ten.

I don’t know why those years it’s not this year.

So we could say you’re cooler than you were last year.

That means now is more cool than 2009.

If we wanted to switch that around then we could say in 2009 you weren’t as cool as you are this year and we’ll talk about that.

Not as cool as in a moment.

You’re better than me at ping pong.

You’re better than me at ping pong.

I’m worse than you at ping pong.

I’m worse than you at ping pong.

OK now if we wanted to make it another word and we wanted to use more or less we could use skilled.

For example you’re more skilled than me at ping pong.

So let’s go into a couple other types of comparison before we get into some deeper examples.