How to form comparative adjectives Some examples of comparatives in English are: faster, slower, happier, and shorter. To form the comparative meaning more than, use más followed by the adjective ...

One thing I was totally confused by when I first started learning Italian was the comparative. In fact, who am I kidding – I still get confused by adjectives and adverbs of all types in Italian. But ...

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, by Kenneth Frampton; edited by Ashley Simone. Lars Müller Publishers, October 2015, 304 pages, $40. In A Genealogy of ...

and, one could determine if two adjectives were equal. After Saigon fell, he had survived nine long years of torture. Nine and long. He knew no other way to say this.

Your headline “Kerry tells China it must act quicker to forestall climate ‘chaos’” (FT, July 21) shows the writer as having a poor grasp of the basic rules of English grammar.