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- idioms - more to the point—means what, precisely? - English Language . . .
0 Internet sources differ when it comes to the semantics of English 'more to the point' My question here: Does it mean 'more precisely' or rather 'more importantly' or even 'additionally', essentially? I can't believe it can mean both 'more importantly' and 'more precisely', because 'importance' and 'precision' are very different concepts
- When to use more likely and most likely in a sentence
I am having a difficulty on what is the proper usage of more likely and most likely Is there any way to remember the difference between these two phrases easily? On the following sentences below,
- Does more than 2 include 2? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
In technical document in English, I read sentence of "more than 2" I usually just understand it as "two or more" since we generally translate it as similar sentence in Korean (in Korean, there are
- further VS. more - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Please, would you give me some further coffee? vs Please, would you give me some more coffee? Could you think of when and or where we could use further meaning more? Thanks in advance
- more vs the more - I doubt this the more because. .
The modifies the adverb more and they together form an adverbial modifier that modifies the verb doubt According to Wiktionary, the etymology is as follows: From Middle English, from Old English þȳ (“by that, after that, whereby”), originally the instrumental case of the demonstratives sē (masculine) and þæt (neuter)
- Use of “-er” or the word “more” to make comparative forms
Sure enough, this ngram shows that stupider got started long after more stupid Apparently, the need to compare levels of stupidity was so great that people granted stupid a sort of honorary Anglo-Saxon status in order to use the more-convenient comparative -er And once stupider is in, by analogy vapider eventually starts sounding more acceptable
- personal pronouns - than her versus than she - English Language . . .
It is a well known fact that Alex is more soft-spoken than (she her) Why would "her" be wrong? Why must the sentence end with "she"?
- grammar - more preferred versus preferable - English Language . . .
In case (a) you are asking which of the boxes has more desirable qualities than the other This is question you would most likely ask to a person to get their opinion Preferred is a verb In case (b) you are asking which of the boxes would be more likely asking a statistics question, how many people would prefer box 1 and how many would prefer
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