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The rules for comparisons are quite simple but even native speakers seem to make
mistakes.
happy -----happier
one syllable adjectives ending in one vowel and one consonant : double the consonant
and add 'er'
big -----bigger
tall -----taller
Exceptions
good -----better
bad -----worse
far -----further/farther
old -----older/elder
little -----less
early -----earlier
late -----later
fast -----faster
hard -----harder
near -----nearer
soon -----sooner
Nothing very complicated in any of that but listen to native speakers and you will hear
mistakes. Let's hope you don't make any in the following exercise!
Both of these can be used to talk about things which are similar. The rules about their
use are quite clear but, as we will see later, in informal modern English the rules
appear to be changing.
--In Paris, as in Berlin, the bankers are worried about the state of the Euro.
In modern informal American and British English, some people sometimes use 'like'
as a conjunction in the place of 'as' .
These are both considered 'incorrect' by many people but they are becoming so
frequently used that it seems to me that the grammar rules are changing.