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- word usage - more smooth or more smoother? Which is right . . .
You can say "more smooth", or "smoother" Both are fine and mean exactly the same thing But beware of trying to combine them, and saying "more smoother"! Many will say that a formulation like that is wrong
- word usage - It would be appreciated if you can let us know when can . . .
It would be appreciated if you can let us know when can we expect to receive the final payment Does this sound right? I have been using the sentence above whenever I am trying to be polite while c
- 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,
- 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)
- grammaticality - Is more better ungrammatical? - English Language . . .
Just FYI, though, "more better" is pretty frequently used ironically these days by the hipsters and the whatnot to simply mean "better" Also, while I think no one would responsibly advocate this use, I think you could make an argument for saying "peaches are more better than apricots than plums are better than pluots"
- More easily or most easily - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
As for -er and -est vs more and most: we use the -er and -est suffixes on shorter adjectives On longer ones, we use more and most: you are most unlikely (see how "most unlikely" works?) to see "sympatheticer" or "sympatheticest" anywhere, for example
- 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
- What is the difference between in depth and in-depth?
"In-depth" is an adjective which means comprehensive and precise, while "in depth" is a phrase or idiom which works like an adverb, meaning the same, so as comprehensively and precisely Examples: An in-depth analysis of the problem The problem was analysed in depth
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