On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Journalism degree = waste of time. Saying something and meaning something different because you added or missed a word when thinking ahead = Normal. Outside of that, don't be the person who nit pics spelling and punctuality on everything. We all have our short comings and correcting people all the time might just get you punched or shot. Comparing and contrasting modifying comparatives When we want to talk about similarities and differences we can use adjectives in their comparative forms - *Max is taller than Judy.* - *Youre more intelligent than me.* or we can use *(not) as* (adjective) *as* - *Her hair is as long as mine.* - *This ones not as interesting as his first book.* Remember that *not as interesting as* means *less interesting than*'. We can also use expressions like *different from*, *similar to* and *the same as*. - *Shes very different from her sister. Theyre very different.* - *Sri Lankan food is similar to Indian food. Theyre similar.* - *Andrew is the same age as Lily. Their ages are the same.* We use *same *with nouns. *Modifying comparisons* *A big difference much, a lot, far* We can modify comparative adjectives to show that there is a big difference between things. - *Sales in July were much higher than sales in June.* - *Shes a lot taller than you.* - *This ones far more expensive than the blue one.* We can also say that things are completely or totally different from each other. - *They may be twins but theyre completely different from each other.* *A small difference slightly, a little, a bit, not much* We can show there is a small difference. - *Sales in August were slightly lower than sales in July.* - *Youre a bit younger than me.* - *These are not much more expensive than those.* *No difference exactly, more or less, roughly* We can show that there is no difference or almost no difference. - *Hes exactly the same age as me.* ( No difference) - *The figures for December are more or less the same as the figures for November.* (a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:357818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
