As - as' and 'Not as - as'

Now when we’re doing comparatives These are called comparatives comparing things.

We can also use as and when we use as we don’t use then we also don’t use E R and we also don’t use more or less.

So if you’re using this or this you can say the same things often but again you’re not using more you’re not using less.

You’re not using her and you’re not using fan.

This one means that two things are the same.

OK.

So this is basically the best way to say that two things are the same same size the same quality whatever you want to say.

And the cool thing about it is it doesn’t matter how many syllables there are there are two syllables or three syllables.

If there’s one syllable one hundred syllables No no one hundred syllable words doesn’t matter.

Ok not as same.

It doesn’t matter.

The difficulty here is that this as as means they’re equal but this means that one is less than another.

So they’re not exactly opposites.

OK just means one is actually less it’s the same as saying less then.

OK.

So let’s look at some examples.

Sharman is as warm as Hong Kong warm.

We can put in other words here we could say humid humid.

OK.

We could say longer words we could say Charlotte is as interesting as Hong Kong.

Doesn’t matter how many syllables we have.

And it means again in my mind they’re the same.

Of course it’s my opinion it’s my opinion I am or I’m as smart as my brother.

We could say other words here longer words as intellectual as my brother as maybe interesting or whatever we want to say it doesn’t matter.

It means we’re equal.

OK.

But when we use not as something as it means the first thing we say is less then the second thing we say.

So it’s sort of like saying my house is less expensive than his house My house is not as expensive as his house.

So those two are the same.

It’s almost the same.

It is the same as using less then less expensive then not as expensive as it’s the same.

Same meaning.

So let’s look at some examples.

This coffee is not quite as good as Starbucks.

This coffee is not quite as good as Starbucks.

Now why would we sometimes say not as good as instead of using less well Remember less is only used when we have two or three or more syllables.

So if we want to use words like good it’s often very useful to use as instead because we can’t say less good than we would have to change the whole sentence and we would say we would have to say this coffee is worse than Starbucks but maybe that doesn’t give us the right feeling because worse makes this coffee look really really bad.

Maybe people will judge it too much but what we really want to say is Starbucks is here and this coffee is a little bit less just here.

And so we can use not as good as because it doesn’t mean much less.

It can just be a little bit.

This coffee is not quite as good as Starbucks by adding quite here.

I focus on the fact that they’re nearby.

They’re nearby they’re close.

It’s almost as good as almost as good as Starbucks but not quite as good.

So again this is a very useful way to be able to express not that something is negative or completely opposite but that it’s just less and we can use the same adjective.

Doesn’t matter how many syllables so it’s a great way to do it.

And we can add words like quite to say that it’s very close and nearly to say that it’s very far.

So this is like this coffee and there’s Starbucks.

This one I’m not nearly as old as him.

This means the distance is very far.

It’s like saying I’m much younger than him I am much younger younger than him.

So this one is like maybe he’s I don’t know 50 and I’m 24 much younger not as old as same K same.

So we don’t have to change the adjective.

And from our example that we’ll look at in a minute you’ll see how this is a really useful way to express that something is less.